PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

      1.) WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE FAILURE AND         SUCCESS OF STEVE JOBS AS TECHNOPRENEUR ?

    There are lots of factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur. I would like to cite first of the factors that contributed to his success. First was because of his genius and brilliant brain , he created a technology which no one would never created nor imagined to figured what it was look like and how it would be created.  Second was because of his knowledge and creativity to made such thing that he never knew to become famous and in demand. Third was because of his work and determination to continue doing it without anything more expensive materials and some other thing that he would hardly see and have.  Fourth was his genuine on everything he would do and also with his companions. Fifth, because of his friends and family they helped Steve Jobs to create the computer, they help Steve to support his idea, and they help and support him in everything he does, no matter will happened. Sixth was because Steve dreamt big to surpass the IBM, which he called his mortal enemy. IBM was the biggest and famous International Business Machines Company that everyone was dreamed to be part of. That’s why I can say that Steve Jobs was one of a genius and amazing man in the whole world. Seventh was, because of his attitude towards developing more computers that he firstly called “Apple” with matching logo of an apple that has a one bite. Eight was because of his unique rulings or managing all the people and things that surrounds him. Ninth, because also of Steve Wozniak his best friend the one who always there for him until to the peak of his success. I believed that Steve Wozniak contributed lot of knowledge and a big help for him. Without him I think Steve Jobs will probably can’t stand alone or motivate more for Steve Wozniak was also support and really can help him in creating the computer by brain storming and sharing all their ideas to each other. With Steve Wozniak I think Steve can easily done his work on implementing it. Tenth, because Steve Jobs has that big confidence to deal and face all those business tycoons in the world including INTEL the first one who deal with Steve. As If you don’t know, INTEL is a Corporation, a US – based Multinational Corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. That’s also the reason why Steve Jobs computer creation was known around the world because of those Multinational Companies or Corporation that really interested to his creation. These are just some factors that I think grabbed him into his great success. For me it seems that his success was smoothly and gently going upward that he could never think what circumstances it will bring to his life. An obstacle that will uphold his emotions on how he would control his life of being so famous, great, powerful and wealthy.

Second one is citing of the factors that contributed to his failure as a technopreneur. One of the factors that I think contributed to his failure was being so weird sometimes. I don’t know why he acted and imagined something like that, that the normal person could see him might misunderstand that he was mentally retarded. But for me it’s just a slight factor that I think it might affect his career. Another one was because of his desire to become powerful, powerful in a way that people will be amazed by his creation, a computer creation. That people would want to meet him because he was so smart or genius on how he comes up with this what we called nowadays a “Computer”, oh! I think not just those ordinary people but also those big company industries in the whole world.  Being powerful is not bad but doing and applying it in a wrong way matters the most. One also of the factors that contributed to his failure as a technopreneur was being so greedy. For me he has that consumed by selfish desire that he think no one must take it from him. He is over reacted when someone will take an interview or survey to his company like what was he did in the movie that he insulted that particular person who was just doing an interview to the Intel employee or manager might he is, on without knowing that person might can help his company from any risk but of course maybe he just protecting his reputation. Steve Jobs also very suspicious that made him feel to everyone that he is so strict on anything what they wanted to do or work on. I think he is being suspicious because he was already become wealthy about his creation. It made me feel that Steve just wanted to privatize all his ideas and innovations so that no one will pirate it. Additional from that he also self centred person, he wanted that everything he said must be done early or possibly like what he did to his employee he became angry then, just because of not finishing the program that he wanted to have. Like what also he always did to his employees whenever they are going to have a company party he always acted so weird and felt like he was a God to his creation. One also of the factor was when he got so famous and wealthy he changed a lot, even his girlfriend that was pregnant he never entertained. Steve Wozniak also felt the same way too but he still there to help him. Until the time came that Steve Wozniak (his best friend) gave up on him because his doing so weird and aside from that he never understand or give importance the feeling of others especially to his employees and all the people that loves him including his girlfriend and family. The baby that his girlfriend gave birth also contributed him to his failure, because it affects him so much that he can’t work and think well. Everything he does make him angry, I think he was guilty about the baby because he rejected her as his child. But time goes by he realized that he must see the baby and named her “LISA” that’s why he insisted to name his computer “LISA”. By then even his co partners in the company was alarmed about the issue regarding to the baby that he must gave the mother money just to keep silent to the issue because it might affect Steve Jobs name and the company. In behalf of that his company and creation still murmurings in whole world, until such time Bill Gates came and revealed his brilliant ideas to Steve. Bill Gates is one of the factors that affect the success of Steve, it came that Bill took the idea of Steve’s company and made them as theirs but the truth was its Steve’s big idea. Later on Steve knows about it and deals with Bill Gates idea. An Idea on what program that he might can do to work on the computer that every user can play or used to. That program called the Microsoft and now was part of the apple computer. These are just the factors that I think contributed to Steve’s failure, because at the end and up until now Bill Gates was known as the wealthiest man in the world.

For me as a technopreneur and will become well known someday, I might also have those factors that Steve Jobs have, but I will assure that I can balance everything that surrounds me, especially my family and loved ones. I know that being famous and wealthy might deliver or put you in a wrong way, the best thing to do is   just keep going on no matter what, because it will make your life messier if you will become weak in every challenge that you will encountered. Being a technopreneur you must also be wise and brilliant in every innovation and decisions that you will made. Be patience to all the challenges and time that will test your temper. Be approachable to all your client and employees. Being a technopreneur one also of the best thing on dealing and meeting up with your client you must be presentable like you should wear formal attire so that your client will be proud of you and be friends with you, unless you’re like Steve Jobs that you’re the first one who invented something that every company will bid you because of your great and brilliant invention. So far Pirates of the Silicon Valley really helps me to realize that Steve Jobs is not an ordinary person that you can talk to and just go with the flow because a person like him has a different thinking and mindset that you must be in his place too. Well, these are just my observations and opinions about what are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur.

 2.) HOW DO SEE YOURSELF AS A TECHNOPRENEUR?

  First of all let me refresh your understanding about Technopreneurship. What is Technopreneurship? - Technopreneurship is a process in the formation of new businesses that see technology as a base, with the hope that the creation of strategies and innovations that can be put right later on technology as a factor for national economic development. It stated that technology is the main subject that the technopreneur must create and must be implemented so that people may use it to their purposes.  By that, the what they called High Technology will exist and that will help later on our economy progress. Technopreneurship concepts as disclosed basically integrate the technology with entrepreneurial skills (Enterpreneurship skills). In this Technopreneurship base concept entrepreneurship development starts from the invention and innovation in technology. An innovations and invention that will help not just individuals to their own needs and work to be easily done, but to reach also the goals of our country or even in our own local areas. It also hightech ventures in ICt, electronis, internet, life sciences and BIOTECH. Like for example ,CISCO, Nano Tech. Service firm also is involved where technology is critical to their mission, business that provides services. And Delivery or designs of hightech products like computer hardware or any devices. It is also use of technology in the delivery or conduct of normal business activities. Marketing and launching the technology to all business company that knows the significance of technology is also one of the Technopreneurship do business.

What does the role of a technopreneur?-  A person who destroy the existing economic order (creative destruction) by introducing new products and services, by creating new forms of organizations and by exploiting new raw materials (Schumpeter, 1934). Technopreneur is Someone who perceives an opportunity and creates an organization to pursue it. The Person who undertake risks ( by creating an enterprise or business) that has a chance of profit or success technopreneurship distinguishes themselves through their ability to accumulate and manage knowledge as well as their ability to mobilize resources to achieve a specified business or social goal (Kuemmerle, 2002). A person that has a bold, imaginative, deviator from established business methods who constantly seeks the opportunity to commercialize new products, technologies processes and arrangements (Baumol, 2002). Technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, common tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from non sense while integrating variety of ideas from diverse groups and discipline (Manuel cereijo, 2002). A person skilled in applied creativity thrive in response to challenge and lack for unconventional solutions. They experience challenges, creative visions solutions, build stories that explains their visions for and then act to the part of the solutions. They forget new paths and risk failure, but persistently seek success (Dorf and Byers, 2005). A success that no one will take us from them. They are those business mind set people who usually create and deal with those interested one about their innovations.

How do I see myself as a technopreneur? This question also sinks in my mind. As an Information Technology student and obviously it is our concern to know what really technology is, on where it came from, and how it was developed and was known by the people. Since technopreneur is part of our study it is also important to us to learn and how to be a technopreneur. As a professional someday and become a technopreneur, for me it is very important to be wise and more intelligent on making decisions to deal with those business tycoons. Aside from it, I know that being a technopreneur requires logic, techniques, comprehension, smart decisions, strategies, and confidence. First I should have that logic to understand more about technology, on how I’ am going to create new form of technology that soon will be familiar to everyone. A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step by step manner about how a problem can solve. Logic that has many basis principles including that what they called scientific method. I should have also the techniques to present and prove to them that my innovations are very useful or unique to everyone. A technique that I can practically bid my clients to have my innovations. I think I can also comprehend some instances in innovating a technology. As a technopreneur its normal and needed to comprehend a particular situation that may affects your business field because your business might place into risk. I might someday have to be a smart person to make decisions to come up with a good result in my career. Being smart in making decision should be in a right place and right person to deal with. For me as a technopreneur, seeing myself as a smart one might really gave me a big change and opportunity to have a good and a lifetime career in the near future. Since I wanted to exhibit my social ability or cleverness I should be smart enough to be a smart one. I think I should have a strategy to set all my goals into reality. As a technopreneur I need to have a plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal. I think my confidence will develop more because I know that in every deal and experiences that I will encounter may boost my skills to show them that I can do my best.

Relating myself to Steve Jobs I can see that as a technopreneur I will also do the same way too. I felt that in his situation it’s not easy to show his real aim about the Apple Company’s goal. Like what Steve Jobs did to Bill he just wanted to protect his idea to avoid the risk that might happened, but at the end they ended up to be a good partner in the Apple Company. I will do the same way too towards giving my all for the company. Like Steve I will also be a hardworking person that no matter what happened I will still continue working for my goal and to be consistent in my career on being the real creator on my own innovations. I must also think wisely in everything that I will speak of so that there will be no more issues. As a technopreneur it is a must that we should careful about the things that we will act and implement. One thing also I will gonna do was analyzing all the problems and situations well so that nothing or no one will be affected if ever there will be a mess might happened. Planning also is part of getting your goals easily. A great plan before doing or implementing your inventions is better to have than doing nothing for it. Preparing and planning things before starting and putting it all into action is very important because doing business planning will served as your foundation in doing such things that will make big difference in your company. Especially in the field of technology, that involves more materials to use and the hard work of people. Since technology now a day is gradually changing and get so high technopreneur should create more another ideas on how to maintain the technologies as part of the people’s everyday lives. Like Steve having a startup company may be able to bring you in a pressured state. If ever I will be in his shoes I will also made decisions carefully and will control all my employees in my hand to have a better out come in every project that I will made. As a technopreneur I will show to my employees that I can be easily approach regarding all about their concerns. That if ever they are not yet prepared to have any of the program that they must done as a technopreneur I can understand the things or reason that they said to me.

As a technopreneur balancing between the work for technology and for the family and friends must manage well. As a one that works and involved with developing, innovating, and inventing technology I should have the right time and right place for it. If it is work or job it should be it ,nothing more nothing less, being professional is necessary so that limitation will do exist between some important things like family. As a technoprenuer family must also recognized despite all of the things related to my work. For me, busy in a business is not the reason why we are going to neglect our family because abandoning them may either can affects me in my attitude doing my work well. Friends also important to me because sometimes whenever we need someone to talk to or someone that we need a help they also can be a big help. I know that having a start up career in being a technopreneur there are those times that we don’t even know who we are right now, or time that we need to find our self first especially when we are at the peak of our success and those times need as to be alone but we must realized that family and friends are always there for us to help. They are just waiting you to feel them that they are still part of your life even in your hard or tough times. And lastly as a technopreneur myself I will going to pursue my work to meet my goals in the field of Information Technology industry. 

3.) WOULD YOU CHOOSE THE SAME PATH CAREER THAT STEVE JOBS TAKE, WHY OR WHY NOT?

       I know that every individual has its own dreams and that dreams must become true. Of course to come up with that dreams it is part of our life to pass all the risk, all the challenges, and all the tough times in our lives to become strong and fearless on what may future will bring to us. Having a dream in real life is the same with aiming a career that we should deserved to have. A career that will show our real skills and passion on doing a job that can made us happy. A career that may bring us in a life that we never expected or highly imagined that will become true. A career that everyone will inspire and motivate to have the same too.  A dream that may move not just everyone’s heart but also life to deserved more.  All these are dreams or careers that individual should have. As I know before you already captured your dreams you must experienced first those hard times, those hopeless times that you think no one can’t help you. But the truth was only yourself can help you to find all those possible solutions of the problems in life and that is by trusting yourself to do things that you wanted to do, trusting yourself to show others that you are able to stand alone even without them. Trusting yourself on what you can do is the best traits that we need to have to reach our careers in life do come true.

When we get into our own career I know that there are factors that have a contribution into our success and failure as a technopreneur. Like what Steve Jobs experienced he get involved in a situation that can fail his career and might give him risk to give up anything he already have. Steve also experienced those factors that have a big contribution to his success in life. Lifes maybe go ups and down but the important is we must be responsible in all those decisions that we will made. For me life’s today really matters because what you did today will be the come up of your future. I’m not saying that what you think literally things that results will come up in the future , what I’ am trying to say was what you have done today will counted in the future.

If I were given a chance to take the path of Steve Jobs in the near future why not I prefer to? If having that kind of brilliant mind of him, well it’s my pleasure to have it.  As we know Steve is one of a kind, he has that unique potential and skills that no one will have. We know that he is the only person who created the computer that no one could imagine to exist. Taking the path or having the same situation in his career I think we will also have the same attitude towards dealing those people and works, the same point of views , the same thinking and thoughts , also having the same some of his weird personality and characteristics. For me having the same with some of his characteristics matters a lot because without his strong characteristics he will not probably see and known as an apple computer creator. I saw from him the intelligent that no one will have. I saw that he has that reputation to stand on. He wisely deals with those some business tycoons. He sees that everything he does is good for everyone but unfortunately not all of it is right. He has that traits that he don’t aware that he already have. I just only admire him from being a hardworking, genius, and different from others. The personality that I don’t want him is that he usually acted so weird that some may misinterpret him that he is a retarded person, I think it is because of his over genius mind. Actually after watching his movie on how he got to that success, I learned a lot from him. On what does technoprenuer do in developing more his skills and finding his self on the centred of his success. Steve had his own originality, he never steal others big ideas. As what I noticed to him when he was at the peak of his success he began to change and he don’t care about the feelings of others especially to his girlfriend. I just only admire his positive traits.

If I were different from Steve’s career path I might be not as genius as he was. I think I will be different from him. As an Information Technology student I think my career path will be a simple technopreneur that having a small start up business involving computer technology or any kind of it. A start up that only have that small idea on how to develop my skills in creating a new form of technology and by sharing or teaching also others on what I already learned before. A technopreneur that deals only with those small business men. Maybe I’m just doing a little common development towards my innovations. I think my career path is not complicated as Steve Jobs had. Yes, I know that everyone dreamt about to have the path of Steve , but the question is are that person that will balance everything ? I mean about your attitude in your work place that you will still approach and care about your employees feelings? That you could be fair to everyone in spite to your success?   Are you still that person when you are at the peak of your success?  These are just questions that entered into my mind if ever you will be on Steve’s place. For me maybe there will be changes that will going to change. I know that being a technopreneur takes a long time to come up with a real innovation because it takes logic and analysis on what technology you will going to create even just it is a form of ideas. Technopreneur must be hardworking like Steve Jobs so that innovation like his may exist. As far as I know technoprenuer has a big part or contribution to make our economy progress. Technopreneurs are those people who have a smart idea on giving something new to the people.

           

I know each of us has a different path to go in the near future. I think that path should fit your passion. You must love what you are doing, so that when time comes you will feel it easily to overcome.  Even myself I knew what path I should take because I know all things that I love to and what skills I have.  The only thing you should do to have a right career path in life is to observed first yourself on what field are you really in. Then, after that decide what makes you love and enjoyed the most. Make sure also about your skills and passion that you will notice you have. Because for me knowing everything you loved to do is the most important thing that you must know first to have a right path to travel on. Along the way on your path don’t change so that people around you will still looking at you on who you are before and will get them amazed by your being consistent.  Career path is a big deal for me to talk to, because it is where your life depend on in the future. Having that kind of Steve career path is tough to have , maybe in some other ways of hardship you will come up with that but If having no determination in life will make it seems to be useless. Another thing was as a I.T. student right now it is our first step to become the next Steve Jobs , we never predict the future you or I can be. But of course being genius and highly imaginative person may be able to deliver us in Steve Jobs position. For me nothing is impossible to a reach your dreams if only you are going to believe in yourself that you can make and do things better that you can imagine. In general, determination, hardship and being creative always counted to have better career path to travel on the future. Remember that if everyone can do it, how much more we are or you are? I’m I right?