Reflection about the story of "The Pirates of the Silicon Valley"
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
In business there was a cycle of success to failure or failure to success. Those are the factors experienced by every entrepreneur or technopreneur. My parents also experienced all those things they manage a little business without consulting to the expert and without considerably planning. After five to seven months our business was bankrupt. Lessons learn! Make sure that you have a background for your business and make sure that you plan well, “4 W’s”- What, When, Where and Who.For me there are two ways of managing a business to surpass the trials. “Be patience” to wait for the right time that your business becomes boom or become successful. “Patience is a Virtue” you must have the ability to endure waiting or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset. The longer you wait for, the more you appreciate when you success. Everything was hard while, is worthwhile. Furthermore you must have “the courage” not to be disappointed with what you encounter or commented by the consumer or customer. Also you must have the ability to face difficulty or being deflected from your chosen business. Just like Steve Jobs he faces all difficulties and became one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our generation. He made some rules that he use to step higher like a ladder of success.
The 12 Rules of success by Steve Jobs to be successful.
Do what you love to do. This is the first rule made by Jobs. There are some reasons why they have a successful career. First ”willingness” not only technopreneur but also the person have the passion of the career they do. Second “activeness”, I can say activeness since an active person has energy can love and do whatever they want. Lastly “happiness”, of course if you are happy of your deed then you can love it. Find joy in every in every simple things and see the beauty then afterwards you learn to love of what you are doing. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
“You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
Think Different. Be the one and be original. You can make things by the help of your imagination of thinking something original and different from others. Steve Jobs said "Better be a pirate than to join the navy."
"Think Different" is an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997 by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. It was used in a famous television commercial, several print advertisements, and several television advertisements for Apple products.
Do the best and be the best. Life has its best then it is the way to teach us to aim one step higher among other people. Make your best not you’re poorest. Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Hire good people with passion for excellence.
Be Entrepreneurial. Be a successful employer not to be a successful employee. Be the owner, the manager and be the boss. That’s I call an "entrepreneurial mindset".
Make Swot Analysis. Study all the things that you need and can be need to your business. Don't be slow to act in throwing bad apples out of the business.
Start Small, Think Big. Start simple things, but don’t waste your time. Step forward not only for tomorrow but the future. “Think beyond” as if you own the world. It is not enough to do things in the right way nevertheless what is more important is doing things for the right reason.
Try to become a market leader. Make something standardize for economic activity connected with the production, manufacture, or construction of a particular product or range of products. Be the first.
Focus on the outcomes. Don’t mind the people who judge your performance just focus of something turns out in the end, “a satisfactory outcome”.
Listen to your customer. Comment is allowed but focus only in the people who use your product. Don’t bother yourself of the bad feedbacks use this feedbacks to improve your product.
Be Innovative. Achieve something in advance, new and creative products. Introduce a new way of doing something or a new device. Hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Learn from your failure. Successful people did some mistake but they don’t quit. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything innovate. Entrepreneur without a failure was nonsense.
Keep Learning. Aims high don’t focus in one learning but more and more learning. Get and gain information about somebody or something that you can use in the future.
These are the secrets and factors behind the success story of Steve Jobs.
In addition, failure always present in every entrepreneur. Like what I said entrepreneur or technopreneur without a failure was nonsense. Failures give courage in every technopreneur to take and face the challenges for the next try. But I didn’t said that you make some mistake to learn but then and again go with the flow, if there was a mistake just be open-minded and solve that mistake then learn from it. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live.
The quality of the business you have depends on how you love the things you do, how you face the trials, how you think differently to others, how you manage the firm, how to learn among your failures and how you love the entrepreneur you have. Those things are not only the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur but also to the people have ability to have business. Don’t quit even you made some mistakes.
References:
(http://techslum.com/technology/steve-jobs-succss-factors/2010/01/27/)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different)
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
On the other hand what is technopreneur? Let us define technopreneur. It is come from two words Technology and Entrepreneur. It means a business that using technology as their business model. They don't fear to fail. They take failure as a learning experience, a stimulator to look things differently and stride for next challenge. Technoprenuers continuously go through an organic process of continual improvement and always try to redefine the dynamic digital economy. People are really struggling for survival but they don't know that the stuffs that could save them from annihilation and broke is just beside them. Yes just beside them, they only need a computer and an internet connection.
But how it could it is so? Can you see dollars around you? Can you earn money for your future or even at this early moment? You know how to earn home base? Can technology help me or to help you to earn some money?
Me? Well all I can suggest is you just have to be equipped in this so called field of technopreneurship. After watching the movie entitled “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” it’s all about the history of computers. This is the story of the growth of the personal computer industry. The movie while based on historical fact did alter things a bit for dramatic reasons. The Movie begins with IBM in the early 1980's, the big brother in the computer world that everyone else feared. It shows how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates use the technology for business to their success.
Then that movie shows how brilliant the technology was. Me as a student my goal was to finish my studies. Years from now I really crave for the concept of using the technology. I want myself sooner or later to have a business, not just have as simple as business is, but a production in regards of technology advancement. In which I can fully be proud of- a totally groundbreaking enterprise just like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I want them to beat off. (day dreaming?)
This magnificent idea of mine doesn’t seems and look easy. Yes I agree! But If I have the good virtues same with the innovative person in industry, surely I can be dignified and deem to honor by the number of people around me.
Be creative, savvy and optimistic are the few attitudes of being one of a kind. One of the ways in alleviating our concepts in the field of technopreneurship is having of the said subject to our curriculum. Honestly speaking, I was confused if this subject really exists and helps my future, I hope so.
If I’m not mistaken the popular and known money machine today was online blogging, buy and sell, and etc. Now it was very easy to find ways of reaching the mind goal of become good earn money businessman in few days of time. Adding items or ideas in the internet need to be in perfect shape and it has to be somewhat related to the Wholesalers even writer around the world? Bidding and making the product more smooth and trustily can make you more profitable on selling items on websites and it was one of the key factors of been a good Internet marketing employer. Make money online is very easy just own a website and all you got to do is to check out your accounts and make them count at the end of the month. It was very much a worth for Internet business and vast number of blogging users are looking ahead of these kinds of services for them in the future. As all know Google is top level search engine which provide number of user friendly features. Google Adsense is most demanded option for web site. If you are going to create new web site never miss this option which can earn money through the internet. It is best way to rank your site o the top while earning money. Google Adsense is big assist for any kind of web sites. There is a trend to make new web site especially to do Adsense text ads. According to the Adsense theory making web site especially for it is a guilty. But no worries at all as all things change with new technology. The real theory is you must give service or sell your products with Affiliate links. It also have an advantages like, anyone can earn money online staying at home. It was simple and creative. Spending little time you can earn big money. Increase internet marketing opportunities. You can get more traffic for your web site. This is the best option to earn money in the internet market. Creating own website and original content will carry you on to the top level in Adsense program. See, even at home you can earn money at your any vacant time.
Nowadays, technology advancements had great impact in online business, then almost of the physical business company are now closing but the online business marketing become embellishment and grow well. Some of the crowds have considered starting their own internet home proven businesses to take advantage of bigger income. The significant of technology advancement in this line of technopreneurship can be paralleled to fuel that makes an engine starts. Communication is vital to make your business work; the birth of online business keeps you businesses alive and surviving. Because at the present time on a personal level, modern technology allows us to stay in touch with friends and relatives instantaneously at any hour of the day in any location. Modern communication has reshaped everyone's experience of the world and the information in it.
Now, the world needs Information Technology specialist. One day I become IT specialist. And I’m dreaming that someday my name will be known and belongs to the lineup of Gates and Jobs as the most earning technopreneur.
References:
(http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/369728/what_is_technopreneurship.html?cat=3 )
(http://blog.bitcomet.com/post/18430/)
(http://www.mydollarpage.com/)
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
Apple is one of the most iconic names in the computer industry, and the two men who were largely instrumental in its establishment–Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak–are no less legendary. When the two set up shop in 1976, little did the world know just how significant an impact the company will make in computer technology. The Apple Corporation is still in existence and in fact is still one of the foremost names in personal computers and mobile technology today.
You, me and us, can you imagine that yourself taking the same career paths of the great Steve Jobs? It’s possible right? Just bear this in your mind “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. You somehow already know what you truly want to become.” - Steve Jobs
Sometimes one of best ways to be unsuccessful in your search for the right career is to be unclear as to what you want. The first rule of Jobs was “Do what you love to do“. On the other hand, you should have sharp-eyed when you are stalking for a job or business. You should be able to determine if you are in that field. Make sure that kind of jobs or business is appropriate for you. Assess your strong points, interests, principles, and character. Make use of career guides and personality tests. No matter what techniques or tools you use, you will be accumulating a private assessment and outline that will direct you on a suitable career path. It will help you to decide and what to do in your chosen career. A career that leads you to the tip of the mountain, in other words love whatever paths you choose. For more than three decades, Steve Jobs has been creating products that enrich people’s lives. But in some ways, his greatest achievement could be in what he has taught us about work and life: expect excellence from yourself, create great experiences for your customers, and follow your heart.
But there is one thing that I don’t like Jobs characteristics. In the movie entitled “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” he used his power, talent and skills just to control, dictate, dominate, humiliate and embarrass others. Sometimes he didn’t appreciate the accomplishments done with his employees. It results that Steve Jobs fired in the Apple Company. But inspiring quote he said, “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” He learned from his failure and this is one of his rules made by him. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Jobs loves of what he is doing, and so instead of losing his past profession he always believing that whatever happens, there is a rainbow after the rain. Even he deals with trials by the middle of the flight of his life he still goes on of his career paths. Because of his determinants to solve those struggles and tangible problems I idolized him as a raw model. He didn’t waste time as he stated “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
From his inspiring quote limit your time. As we all know God give us borrowed life so, make your best and be the best. That’s the third rules of Jobs. Don’t waste the time given “Time is Gold”. Though it’s better to have best quality than to have number of quantity but low quality. “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”- Steve Jobs. The staying power of quality products as against the transient nature of fad products cannot be emphasized better. Mass-produced, cheap imitations can never score over genuine quality products. Stand out from the competition with high quality products that will stand the test of time. Opportunities always come any time so the secret of career path of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. But as of now, all I can do is to practice the rules of Steve Jobs. Truthfully sacrifice in the start will lead to an abundant living for tomorrow.
‘Beat the odds”. That’s the one thing that will inspire me more and most to take after them. Though I don’t have the perfect idea to start it up as of now but I assure that giving me such recognize and pleasure in the near future will bring me to the “hall of fame” with influence and abounding. Being well-off in this career path in Technopreneurship is no other than Mr. Kevin Cris Ramos. Yes I can!
References:
(http://www.workbloom.net/steve-jobs-work-and-life-advice-from-a-teen-idol/)
(http://wakish.info/success-inspirational-and-motivational-quotes-by-famous-people/)
(http://thinkexist.com/quotes/steve_jobs/)
