ASSIGNMENT 1: PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

ASSIGNMENT 1: PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

1.)  What are the factors that contributed to the success and failures of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?

There are many factors that affect to the success of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur:

Steve Jobs has a great knowledge because he had become a smart president of a company because he knows the best and worst for his company. He can see the future that can lead them to become successful in the world of computer industry. He has a knowledge in computers and in designing it to become more presentable in the public. He can show you the true example of what should be a good leader that could be through his own knowledge.

The other factor that Steve Jobs became a successful person is because of being a good speaker to the public. He can manipulate you so that you cannot say “no” to him. That’s why Steve Wozniak like him very much because when he finished his own computer Steve Jobs made it sold to the businessman even though he is not wearing a formal attire to attract his clients he made it to agree of what they had been discussed in the agreement.

Steve Jobs is very passionate of everything that he wants to do, he loves the way of what he is doing. Because in growing such a huge business like Apple Computers you should know how to love your job so that the job itself will love you back. Because in business you should know how to handle the bounded duty that is responsible in your hands to grow as a competitive to the other business that you are dealing with.

Steve Jobs thinks that nothing is impossible and always think that he can make history. He has the imagination that can create objects that no one can visualize. Like the one of the scene in the movie when he was in the state of being drugged that he imagine himself as being an orchestra conductor in the middle of the grass field that his friends have wondered if his is out of his mind and making his own world that nobody can see.

            Steve Jobs has a very high spiritual character that did not know what the word impossible means. He always thinks that he can surpass his enemies in business. He always sees the world as a very competitive industry. He always thinks that he can get the things that he wants even if there are obstacles that are blocking his way to achieve it.

Steve Jobs always thinks that he can overcome the things that he already accomplished and make a new one that have new features that everyone will like. He always thinks that a businessman can achieve his goals by innovating the things that he already done. In that way you can figure out the things that you would change and what would you don’t want to change.

On the other side of success there is always a failure accompanying it that can make you struggle and give you obstacles that will challenge you to overcome it and test if you are deserving of what you call success. And here are some factors that contributed to the failures of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur:

As a result of a challenging competition between computer companies, Steve Jobs abuses his own workers to make a unique design that can lead them at the top of the computer industry. He abuses his workers by slaving them for working 24/7 to make softwares. He is very strict that lead to the employees to quit including his own partner Steve Wozniak. He is acting like a remote control of a robot that his employees were the robots. In business, you should be nice to your workers so that your company will perform well or else your company will lead to bankruptcy. It also results to a dogfight of his employees and yet he divided it into two groups the Apple II team and the Macintosh team and it result with employees that were angry in him. And as a businessman you should be equal to your employees and do not try have favorites in dividing your employees into teams.

I think one of the failures of Steve Jobs is trusting a person that you only meet in a single day, like the way he trusted Bill Gates to have his computer Lisa. And as a result he was being overcome by Bill Gates for just knowledge of how the computer Lisa works and steals the idea of making a computer with a graphical user interface feature so that it can be a user – friendly computer. And Steve Jobs knew it he was so angry to Bill Gates that made them to a serious fight in the world of computer industry.

Steve Jobs’ denial on his illegitimate child leads to his failure because when he is being questioned or even if there are people who is trying to discuss about his daughter, he automatically become a hot – headed person and will turn his anger to his employees. Like the scene in the movie when her girlfriend wants him to accept the baby he denies it and very angry to her and always saying that it is not his child and when he enters to his building he accidentally go to the board room (I think) and meet the wannabe applicant for his company and turn his angry to that applicant, he embarrassed the applicant by questioning with non – sense questions and leave the room with the applicant that he recently embarrassed to the person who are currently performing the interview. As a businessman, you should set aside your personal problems when you work and when you have problems in your business you should leave the problems in your company before going to your home.

 Steve Jobs’ one failure is being judgmental, like the scene that is being showed in the movie when he arrive into the building from the party at the middle of the night and sees his employees (specifically the programmers) that didn’t finished the designs that are being assigned to them he easily judge the employees that they are not capable for the company because they cannot make a design in a specific time. And he didn’t know that his employees are working for a large amount of time without break and cannot think well because they are already stressed their bodies. As a president of your company, you should be aware of the health condition of your employees so that can work well.

2.) How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?

            For me technopreneurship is the combination of technology and entrepreneurship that means business through technology or by making a technology becomes a business that will lead you to make money in your own simple way.

            Technopreneur deals with innovating technologies so that it can be useful in business, they think of technology as a different way to help the industry grow faster and reliable. Technopreneurs are willing to take the challenges that they will face when it comes to their way along the road to success. They are not afraid of facing failures that will pull them from the road to success; instead they will only think that the failure that they had faced was a lesson to be learned and they can only learn it when they experienced it.

            The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a worth watching movie, because it gives you the idea of how an entrepreneur can make a technology becomes a business and makes you a successful businessman even though you didn’t have a chance to graduate a business – related course. In this field of business the only thing that you will do is to gain knowledge of the technologies that is recently being used and make some innovations so that people will be interested in your product, even though you are a Information Technology student, Computer Science student, Engineering student or any kind of student as long as you have a very wide imagination of how will technologies can be combined in entrepreneurship you can become a technopreneur.

            For me as a technopreneur, I can see myself as a competitive one because we all know that there are many technologies that are emerging recently in the market. So, I must be aware that being a technopreneur I must have plenty of ideas that will keep the business in a competition. I must have the entrepreneurial skills like Steve Jobs have, for example is the factor that contributes the success of Steve Jobs in terms of good speaking to the public. I must learn it so that when I am dealing with other people I can make them believe that all I say is true and make them convience that my products are very effective.

            Technology is the key to everyones success and you must become innovative so that you can reach that goal. Like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Bill Gates made the lives of the people much easier by inventing a user – friendly operating system, the Windows, which has a Graphical User Interface. Steve Jobs that is known to the innovative one because he made the lives of the people more elegant, because of the gadgets that he introduced to us like the iPod. They are the two most well – known technopreneurs that successfully innovate the lives of the people because of their creative imagination. I always admire them because they make technopreneurship become famous in the economy.

            And I always think what would be the key factors to become a successful technopreneur?

            They must be a good entrepreneur, which has a clear vision of what a business would become if they face a problem. A person that has full of strategies so that they can avoid a failure and can make his/her company grows.

            A good entrepreneur must be a good listener that will be an open – minded person so that he can learn from other people ideas. Because you cannot learn all the information you want if nobody told you. Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have not learn all their knowledge by their own they copy and steal to other people’s ideas like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates say that there is a saying from a famous painter, Picasso, “Good Artist copy, Great Artist steal.”

            Entrepreneurs will not work as individuals; they always work by teams so that they can share ideas, discuss solutions for the problems, and decide the appropriate answer for their problems.

            Entrepreneurs should also set there on goals and objectives so that they have a reason to continue the competition with the other entrepreneurs.

            Entrepreneurs must have the knowledge of the strength and weakness of their business. They must identify it early so that they can prevent the weakness and balance it to the strength. They must be passionate in what they are doing, love their employees so that it won’t become a burden and will work efficiently.

            And with a little touch in technology and some connections you can easily become a good and competitive technopreneur in the industry.

            I think these factors will be my guide so that I can be a good technopreneur sooner or later and I can apply all those things when I started my own technology business so that it will go smoothly and firmly in the world of industry.

            And can also help other people who are trying to become successful in what they are dreaming. It would be the starting point so that you can be a good leader someday. And make a company grow with a larger buildings and can have other branches that can reach to the top of the industry that you belong.

            You can also be a successful entrepreneur when you didn’t limit your imagination in the four corners of the room and you should think with a wide creative mind and through an innovative way so that you can be a good and innovative businessman.

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

            If I am going to be ask if I am gonna take the same career path that Steve Jobs took then my answer would be yes if I have the same level of thinking capacity with Steve Jobs. It is not easy to become a second generation Steve Jobs. He has a very wide and yet a very creative imagination that anyone couldn’t be. But, if I have to be given a chance to make history I would like to become a second generation Steve Jobs that is not contended of what ideas do I have now and keep searching for new and creative ideas that can make people lives simpler. I would not stop finding solutions or methods that would help to solve the problems for my products or could help me create a new product that can help the company to go higher in the stock market.

            Many people appreciate what Steve Jobs made to develop the computer industry. What they didn’t know about Steve Jobs is how he treated his employees with an illiterate character trait of forcing employees to work at least 50 hours straight. He only cares the future of his company not the health of his co – workers. Jobs only accepts a perfect and creative work if don’t how what does it means then you are capable in his company. That’s why many co – workers of Steve Jobs are angry to him because of his bad attitude like his demanding a simple thing but the truth is it is complicated as it be. And that dark side of his career path is exempted to the career that I like in him.

            The good thing about Steve Jobs is that he has the courage to pursue his goals even though it is very impossible to achieve but he will do anything so that he can accomplish the one that he desires and make his own history. Like when he see that the invention that XEROX Computer Laboratory has the solution for his personal computer because it has a Graphical user Interface and with a corresponding device that is called mouse that when you click it you were there and when you click another you where somewhere else. At this point of view I see that business is such a clever ones because an entrepreneur must set strategies so that he can get what he wants to improve the product or improve your services to your costumers or most likely attract many investors to invest in your company.

            And by the knowledge that Steve Jobs’ owned and by being passionate in his work he became a very huge competitor for Bill Gates and his owned company, Microsoft.

            Being a technopreneur, Steve Jobs use his every knowledge of how would he compete and win to the other competitors; if he has given a chance of stealing the ideas of the others he is going grab the opportunity.

I can start with a small enterprise or just even work in some establishment that would make you save a little bit of money. In this way, if you can save a plenty of money you can start your own business that you would like. And don’t forget the lesson that you have learn in the story of Steve Jobs as a businessman and as an innovative man. And I should always keep in my mind that every business has a strength and weakness that could make you as a better entrepreneur. If I can face the failure along the business I should be strong enough to fight it and set into mind that every failure has a subsequent experience. And don’t forget the lesson that had been learned so that it will be my shield when I have faced the same failure again.

When you pass an obstacle in life it will become your advantage to face another challenges that you may encounter and will transform you as a greater person that have a lot of experiences that has been encountered in life.

It is the same when Steve Jobs faces all his challenges in life along with the success that he always keeps to maintain a good personality that he can be. So if someone will ask me if I would take the same career path of Steve Jobs then my answer is yes, because if I am worthy of having the success of being a technopreneur then I should be proud of myself for making my dream come true and making my goals being achieved. Because nothing is impossible to a person that always think positive and always striving hard to achieve their goals in life.