Monday, July 7, 2014

Pirates of the Silicon Valley 3Q

*What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
When I heard the name Steve Jobs, the first thing that comes to my mind is his creations, namely the Apple, the Macintosh, the iPod, the MacBook, the iPhone and the iPod Tablet. Steve Jobs is known all over the world with his spectacular innovations. It’s very awesome ideas he explore or expose to world and until now that name is very popular and I don’t know what to do if that man who create that power idea that change the life of every people in this world and we cannot deny the fact that he is one of the well-known and successful technopreneur in the history of Information Technology industry. Although he died on the year 2011, the memories and his works still remain. Steve Jobs has a huge contribution in terms of technology in our society. His innovations really affect the lives of every individual, especially in terms of interacting with other people, for spare time purposes or even in the field of work. Factor that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs

                There are lot of qualities in ourselves that may either make you or break you. Watching the Pirates of Sillicon Valley, I was amazed by the life of the two successful owner and developer of most the known Operating System in the whole world making them one of the most richest person around the globe, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. However, we will going to focus on Steve Jobs. A lot of factors contributed to the successful path to the new industry of Steve Jobs. We have seen in the movie how he managed, from only to a garage to the gigantic building, his career path, but of course with the help of his friends and bestfriend. From there, you will see that you don’t need a lot of money to start your business. Look at them! they don’t even have that lots of money, what they had most was their passion to their works,  the overflowing and overwhelming passion they had was fantastic to the point of making you envious! Steve Jobs had these courage and motivation and eagerness to create a completely new consciousness, as he say. If there are lot of qualities within him that made him in that position, well, there are also factors that contributed to his failure as a technopreneur. We have seen a lot of them, right? That failures of Steve Jobs are your key points to compare Bill Gate and Steve Jobs on how they deal as being a technopreneur.

                Steve Jobs has this ability to see things absolutely different, like he could turn anything to gold. Remember his friend, Wozniak, said: He was never like us. He has a brilliant kind of thinking that differs from and our level of thinking. Steve has a great mind. He could easily think of new ideas and can even make them brought to life. His thinking capacity was so broad, If it weren’t he would never be a bolder technoprenuer. Like an artist-poet, writer, as he say. He think of himself as an artist. You can feel him thirst for more. You can feel him that there are lot of things in his minds- ideas that keeps popping in his head and vision that serves his motivation as he go deeper and deeper. Passion to his work. When he was introduced with this Personal Computers, he then realized what he wanted to do. He loves what he was doing, the desires to make a change through technology he was going to make himself. He started from a garage, slowly selling their works to people. Because it is new to people, of course they are curious what are these Personal Computers. But because of Steve's unordinary talent and motivation he was able to sell their works. Slowly, then all at once people are coming to him, not Steve coming to them. He also had these self-motivation and determination. He knew he had to something for him to achieve his set vision as he see himself in the future. The willingness to make change in this world and to create a new consciousness was the things that motivates him to strive to achieve that. Steve Jobs was a very determined person. Steve's Jobs determination to pursue his dream was so strong inside him that even when people rejected him he did not just stop or quit, instead that made him stronger to pursue his dream hundred times than before. It like 'Nobody can stop me!'. So as his determination growing, it made him a risk-taker too. Rist-taker are one of the qualities of Technoprenuership. This also contributed to the success of Steve Jobs. He was always open for the new opportunities that might came in his way. If I am going to look at him, he is the kind of person that just does not say no to every challenge. Steve has a positive outlook in his career life, which made him prepared for his failure. Although he might have been prepared for his failure, his strong determination still dominating that it may seem that nothing can overcome it. But of course, everything in Steve's is nothing without his people, who also worked hard for him. Steve also needs people, a manpower, and work force to attain his goals. Their company won’t reach that state without the manpower to work for them through.  They cannot work with less than ten people, they will a need a team, a thousand of them perhaps. The hard work, creativity, tears, sweat, hours of work and working brain of his employees contributed a lot to his success.  Another factor that also leads him into failure is that he doesn’t care with the feelings of his employees. He always commands to do this or do that. If they make a mistake, his temper will explode. For me, I salute Steve Jobs as a genius and as a great technopreneur, and nothing else praises. But one thing that makes me dislikes him so much and that is the bad attitude towards his employees or co-workers or even friends. For being too much perfectionist of Jobs there was a time he tormented his employees to be able to create a best production that he wants. And it brings negative impact as a viewer of the movie. Perfectionist is good but too much of it is vicious. I believe that there is no perfect person in this world, so with the imperfection of Steve Jobs shown with regards to his co-workers, it is possible that it is one of the reasons why he failed. As Bill made a talk to Steve, it gave him an opportunity. Knowing how desperate Bill is, he took this opportunity and did everything he can to take over the success that Steve had. This thing that had done by Bill can be considered as betrayal. Steve trusted Bill without considering things. Steve must consider that the world of business is a war, a competition. Second, don’t trust any stranger. Third, think twice, thrice, and many times before deciding things. Steve must know that even Bill is like a saint, offering help for him, he must consider that after all, Bill is still a technopreneur same as him who is competitive to achieve success. Therefore why some of people fail it’s because like the opportunity have by Steve Jobs he didn’t find a way to make that thing much bigger, and Bill have a chance to take that opportunity for his success, so look now Bill Gates now the number richest in the world we Bill Gates is a best or amazing technoprenuer because he carry that idea more bigger and he didn’t expect that idea is a big impact to us. But you can achieve success through making your own instead of stealing and copying things. But, what’s the real point in the thought above is the reality about the world of business. In the business they said no family, no friends and no relatives at all to make the company or the business success and be in the top like now Bill Gates now more than 50 years of age, look and at 50+ years of age Bill Gates remain the richest man in the world, so I think how many ideas you have and you never show it or show up you’ll never be success and for Bill Gates is great man he make an incredible idea and renovation for idea but it’s nice making your own idea than taking or stealing idea to another person. This is an output device which you will just drag, drop and click to whatever you want to do with it. This idea was also stolen by the Apple Inc. and was produce to become as their own invention as to reality they had just copied the idea from the other. As to what has shown in the movie trusting someone is never been that easy you must consider all the possible things which may happen. Business is about competing with others knowledge and competence which has always aim for a success of the venture they have chosen, so we must take care of our secrets and sometimes we need to be private for making us comfortable in our what we doing, so we must aware to this film.
             
*How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
         When I hear technopreneur it means for me it is about selling your technology, or selling your idea of technology. Technopreneur is what I enrolled this semester and it is all about technology, innovations, ideas to make the world better and faster, it is all about you introduce you innovations or ideas or your technology to people who need it and who are interested it. Applying the things we have learned is very much important whether it came from the school, in the movies, along the street or wherever we will get the lesson as long as it is very much helpful for becoming matured and a wise technopreneur. I can foresee myself as a technopreneur as mentioned above. Although the things that were stated are too good to be true, but those are the things I want to imply and to make as a technopreneur someday. Being a technopreneur is not that easy, it is very complicated as entrepreneur does, selling is not that easy or introducing your item to people especially to those who do not get what you want to tell them. So if you are in a field of business you in your environment that they a lot of lackness, so I have a chance to fill that lackness in our environment manage it will to for some that reason that in every company or business that you never care or handle with your beautiful attitude and mindset that you need to make me or your company and stay in high priority income in the business of what field you want they many kind of business. Business we call to the person who gain money or income their doing or every step and say is about money and making their money in our ability me as a student I rather to finish my study than to work because as a default of mindset we can never run a big company if we don’t have an idea of that company in that film Pirates of the Silicon Valley is very aspiring movie and I gain more knowledge about what strategies and techniques that need to do, as technoprenuer we should do our best to tell them that we an entrepreneur can compete and in your company no matter how small my company, but this small company is for a hundred years existing in this world and important of an entrepreneur we must connected in our employee as if we employer now I rather visit every day each office of my employee and I believe that if you manage the people and had a good communication to each and everyone in your workplace, it gives good vibes and there is harmony along the way. Building good relationship with workers is nice thing to do but we should not take in our mind that we will not give our fullest trust to anyone else that around us because we don’t know who are the true ally as well as our opponents that will bring us down. I also want to implement being a perfectionist or vocal when there are things that I know it is not a good thing to do. I want to balance the way I am going treat them and we must mingle to them, to know the employee if we know the attitude of our employee we know or we can adjust what work that I need to give them and to relax their selves that hoping someday they one person that calling me in a hotel like “Sir, you have a meeting now” and feels the owner of a company, hoping someday and graduate in this course Information Technology and mastered in Technoprenuer that thing is very wow ! said hoping that dream I can manage well and good communicate to my employee sometimes we cannot accept the fact that one day that I can make just like the song of entitled “Linbre lang mangarap” in other words your dream what you want, in your dreams. Whether I could not earn a high amount of money through my innovations but the thought that I helped the life of every individual is enough to treasure. To be a successful technopreneur, I might get the learning that I learned from the movies I have watched (as stated above). I will copy somehow the factors that Steve Jobs as becoming a well-known technopreneur and get rid of the negative factors or the unnecessary attitude he had. Well in terms of handling my co-workers, I do not want to simulate the things that Steve Jobs shown in the movie. As much as possible, I want to have good communications with them in order to know their attitude well and to have a unity when it comes to work. Being a good entrepreneur sometimes we getting to closer to or employee and hangout to them, and to more some attitude can every people have a changing type of business in this era now or in our generation we see the innovation of this City and a lot of innovation, everyone of us has an ability to create an ideas and handle a company that in an at risk that sound many find a best idea how to solve that risk in the company and how it solve by the people in our barangay or in an environment society, company members must be friendly to their employee. Well on September 8-12, 2014 we have a field trip seminar in Manila, that place that’s why we want to go there it’s because they an event the Y4IT where all Information Technologies student attend that seminar or competition so everyone of us make a proposal to our facilitator if our ideas is qualified to that competition and we tried our best to create an amazing ideas that never exist that can help us the mother earth, so we as a technoprenuer student that have break to attend like this and most prestigious seminar and sharing groups of all student in the Philippines and they prices for the ideas have a great impact to the society and marketable ideas or innovation. That’s why everyone wants to sell their ideas of technology, and that everyone is called technopreneurs, being them is hard, being them means you need to compete from others, you need to own the light, do not be invisible, you need to make your own show for you to be recognize by people you want to recognize you. It is hard right since there is a lot like you who are desperate for business and desperate to tell the world their product. Being a technopreneur is what our facilitator want us to be, to build up a business or start a business especially here in the city, because he wants to open doors in the city thru us his students, he wants the city to open up a lot of opportunities. And be an innovative person just like our facilitator said that he and his friends that they want that Davao City to progress the status of our economy and if I give a chance that will be an technoprenuer here Davao City I’m very proud of myself and I gave all my best for this job not this job only but also to the city that I want it progress, as we see the Davao City is on o the top city here in our country but our country is very low priority economic that’s we call that our beautiful place is in the low section in terms of technology, that’s why we as a technoprenuer we need sharing ideas not for only in our sake but also to the environment. Being a student that idea that we give or every people have an ideas that can make city beautiful and marketable and if we have that have an idea and you feel your own it’s very sacred interms of ideas of a persons steal. “Good artist copy, great artist steal”. These are the words that were said by Steve Jobs and eventually the words that failed him as a technopreneur. As I watch this movie, I realize that this is an eye opener to everyone not only for the future technopreneurs but for everyone who are involved in the business world. So if that person steal an idea, that person are happy in his/her life and become rich, but suddenly it’s magic that ideas you steal is one of your love ones that you’ll never see is gone that’s the reply of what you get and what you feel now. Living in this world our partners or friend is one the great things happen to us that they support of what we want to do and tell what wrong and right that’s the real friend and hoping someday that my love ones is in my side and they said as like this “don’t be afraid to follow your dream”. God bless us !

*Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?

        Steve Jobs is a one of a kind person that sees things on different way. He is a type of person that you can be proud of and you can be called an epic man. He is a man that love’s to invent and create things. We can call him a very good artist and a special person that had a very special talent. For me it is so hard to attain the things that Steve Jobs was done and it is so hard for me to overcome the things that he made and achieve. If I were given the chance of choosing in following the same career as Steve Jobs done, I may have pick only the things that will help me to my career as an I.T student. I will be going to pick not to follow the same path as Steve Jobs done and achieve. In a Pirates of the Silicon Valley is the story of how Steve Jobs the creator of Apple Company and Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft and Windows reach their success by determination. After watching the movie I felt motivated and inspired after knowing that everything happens or created today start from a scratch. I mean how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs reached their dreams to be a successful one was just started from a dream and then with a big effort to apply they try to create a computer and try to introduce this to people and try to sell. First of all I have my own path and I have my own decisions in life. Things may be hard on me but through experienced, I know that I have the capacity to overcome what Steve Jobs was done to his life. As we know the best example of a great technopreneur is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. They are the people who presented the new face of computer way back in their times. They were the one who introduces Macintosh and Windows who are still living in our today’s generation especially the Windows. But between these two great people, Steve Jobs is the first person whose name became famous and who achieve the success in the world of technopreneurship. He’s also a competitive person who has clear goals in life. Aside from being a successful man in the field of technology specifically in computer technology, he wants to wipe off the IBM from its spot which is one of the top companies in terms of technology. I guess, its one thing that motivates him to push until he taste the success he wanted. Since he have the good qualities of being a technopreneur, he was able to find ways to sell the computer that they made with his friend whose name is also Steve. They were friends then so they were great partners as their business was still starting up. Things were falling into the right place and many opportunities came into their lives as a technopreneurs. As the another guy enter his life and he let it ruin his mind, the threat of being a failure as a tecnhopreneur approached but he didn't notice it due to the fact that he trust this person. This person was Bill Gates who is one of the richest people in the world in this present time. He was one of the reasons why Steve Jobs failed. He was quite wise and knows how to deal people like Steve and he was successful to earn the trust of Steve and that was happened of Steve’s failure as a technopreneur. After Steve knew that Bill used the invented computer that he have and innovated greater than what he had expect, Steve was fired by the president of the Apple Company.  Then after that everything seems to go well, success was inclining and never doubt it because Apple Company today still exist and still introducing new technologies to people around the world. Now the question given was would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not? What happen to Steve Jobs was really amazing, inspiring and very motivational and worth knowing for. Being Steve Jobs would be impossible, I mean Steve Jobs is one and only. His career path has its ups and downs just like any other career paths of people who are also successful like him, success does not mean winning every time, it has also failing but if you are determine to be successful again then it is your choice to stand up again and continue what you had started. I think that is why Steve Jobs reach his success back then because he was determined and h never gave up ad he always think of positivity with his friends, I think that was what brought Steve Jobs to success. I will take Steve Jobs’ vision as an inspiration for me to look beyond from it. Who knows I can do much better technology? Because his a great man that his own ideas do that amazing thing although his ideas was steal, Steve for me is my inspiration of what I have now and earnings of the ideas that build by itself, so I rather his vision that I want to do someday and hopefully that vision of Steve can help to me the a lot of doing just like me a student of technoprenuer that they wants is reach the limit of my expectation and lead the people who I wanna be someday, to tell them that vision of Steve is proven and tested that can help in every time what want to do just like a company and if we want a company business we must need to learned how to handle the people that we want to apply in the company and be responsible to them and connected. Being the ideal technopreneur I want to be someday is not easy. Being a technopreneur is not easy. Technopreneurship is still business and when it comes to this matter everything is like a war. Before achieving the success I want, I have to be a skilled technopreneur to achieve it. It’s complicated in the sense that you must have the skills to make the people around you believes you and buy what you were presenting. It’s true that you will find money in technopreneurship. Even ideas could turn into money but it’s not easy. It involves talking and convincing. It involves talking lies which will make your customer.  Since I am in the Information Technology area, I am possible thinking that someday I could be like Steve Jobs who is so proud in showing and telling that world his ideas and creations. When he thought about computer operating systems, different styles and systems and graphical user interfaces and etc. Everything that relates to the computer, it all progress because of his love to what he has started.- I too wanted to know what is it that I should be starting so that I will be able to do things to make it progress. As a technopreneur, I would like to think of things that will help this start-up business of mine to progress, and that will start on the ways and strategies that I am going to take inorder for me to be able to tell the world that this is my output, what and how it functions and what are its benefits and advantages to everyone’s everyday life. Just as how Steve Jobs take and show the Apple Computer to the world, I also would like to show my own style and creation to the world. I know that in a realistic thought, it would not be easier for me to do it as of now because the creations and innovations of different technologies are rapidly showing up and amazed the world with its functions and features. But then even if with those creations coming out and with the tight competition in the industry, I still believe that there will always be a way and we should know our limitations in doing things that can make us proud. We should also know our limit in terms of doing decisions that can affect a lot of people’s lives. And we should always remember that every failure we attain, we also obtain a very good learning in comes in our mistakes. We should also know how to value every opportunity that will be open on us and give importance to the things that will help us reach our dreams.  I may have a lot of things going on today, but if one day I will plan on becoming a technopreneur, I will be following the career path Steve Jobs took, and I will do everything to succeed too just like Steve Jobs, I will be a risk taker or a gambler and if I succeed I will still be putting my feet on the ground and learn to look back where I came from. And the most important thing is that giving your best in everything that you do and every actions you take. It’s all about the things that you love to do and the things that may make you happy and always we remember “don’t be afraid to follow your dream” God bless us !

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