Pirates of the Silicon Valley

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

                Steve Jobs, the man with leadership and an outstanding special idea about computers. His idea was the reason why the company named “Apple” existed. He contributed a lot of innovations in this world. He’s also the reason why MacBook, iPod, iPad, and the most popular one, the iPhone. However, a lot of things go through his life before he became the most successful technopreneur. But how did he became successful in his time? Mr. Jobs has a passion in doing his work. Jobs said, “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.” From his first days working at his father’s workbench, Jobs knew that his future lay in the creation of things. It wasn’t until he met Wozniak in 1968 that he knew what those things were – personal computers. They first set their company in the garage of Steve Wozniak’s father. Despite failures such as Apple III and being fired from the company he helped found, Jobs managed to come back out on top because he knew that he didn’t want to devote his life to anything but his passion. Mr Jobs has a determination in his work. He kept his eyes and ears open and had the courage to seize new opportunities as they came along. Whether risky or outright foolish, Jobs was from then on out determined to follow his intuition in guiding his business decisions. Mr Jobs has faith in his work. Jobs didn’t always know what he was doing in life. A college dropout, many gave up on him and had little faith in his abilities. But, Jobs didn’t give up on himself. He continued pursuing avenues that he found interesting, trusting that in the end it would be more meaningful and even perhaps useful. He soon learned that everything in his life, even the most terrible things, seem to happen for a reason and he is now able to place a certain amount of trust in the uncontrollable. Mr Jobs is so concerned with his innovations. When other CEOs were focusing on sales and financing, Jobs was concerning himself with the next big thing. Personally meeting with suppliers and suppliers’ suppliers, Jobs made it his top priority to keep on top of the next frontier. By filling his company with only the brightest of people, Jobs continues to work towards ensuring Apple a place at the top of the market for years to come. And Mr Jobs had vision and being an open minded individual at that time is a very powerful asset. An open mind and the ability to put new twists on old techniques was one of the key distinguishing factors between Jobs and his competitors. From cute and utilitarian ads to those that appealed to counterculture rebellion, Jobs’ vision was integrated into every aspect of the company’s strategy. If you dreamed of changing the world, then Jobs was out to prove any way he could that you needed an Apple computer to do it. Mr Jobs has skills in terms of convincing people to invest in his innovations. He has the power to convince investors to have their partnership with him to make a good business production and convinced people that they need his products. On top of that he makes himself presentable in front of other people by cutting his hair off, shaving his beard and wearing business suites. Mr Jobs has a good management skills. In the movie, Steve Jobs was not the main inventor but his high school friend Steve Wozniak. Even though he is not really the main inventor of their product he manages to take their business into the next level. Good management is very important in a company and Steve Jobs did a great job in managing Apple. Mr Jobs is clever! His innovative ideas made a better world. He contributed a lot in the world of technology. His works are so remarkable, even in this age. And because he’s clever, Mr Jobs is able to create a small team with top talents, which creates new products that could satisfy the needs and demands of the consumers. He wants that every detail of the product that his company made is perfect. He wants greatness in all the products. Because of his perfectionism, many of employees strives or pushes their very best too meet Mr Jobs’ standards and if you aren’t able to meet his standard, he won’t hesitate to kick you out in the work. Lastly, he opted to singled out himself to be an employer than an employee which he successfully accomplished. He has the necessary skills to be deemed as a leader or a “Boss”. He was strongly determined to develop new products and make them popular too among consumers. And he was always insisted that they must always maintain their 'culture'. Steve Jobs does not limit his horizons by just thinking inside the box but far beyond that and he is very focused on what he was doing. But as we all know about reality in every presence of successes, failure is still waiting just around the corner. And on Steve Jobs' case failure hit him hard, it arrived during times when he least expected it. There were a lot of factors that contributed to his failure, the following are just a few of them. The way Steve Jobs treated his employees was somewhat unorthodox. Jobs sees his employees as mere pirates or robots rather than normal people. Why? because he always made them work far beyond their normal limitations (physical limitations).As observed by all in the movie, many of his employees are always exhausted because they are all lacking enough sleep and if Steve Jobs is not impressed by their work, he would not hesitate to pull the plug of the computer and start talking to them rudely, shouting at them and no holds barred demoralize his workers as if they never did anything right. He would never listen, he had a bad temper and because of this, many of his employees got fired. He failed to realize that a good relationship between an employer and his employees is highly important. Everyone in a company needs each other to make the business grow and further develop. Steve Jobs lost sight of where he started. At one point he even ignored the people who greatly help him make it to the top. And then karma, karma always comes in two ways the good karma and the bad karma. For Steve, the latter one arrived and hit him hard. Because Steve Jobs stole the idea of XEROX Company’s computer which was the first to have a mouse and graphic interface the Apple Company made it to the top and became the leading technology-based company of that time. Instant karma came when the product that Steve Jobs stole from XEROX Company was also stolen by Bill Gates, a man who he trusted to never betray him back then. And made Bill Gates the richest man in the world. Bill Gates being rich wasn't just the end of it, he was also removed from the company that he started because the people within it see his handling of the company disruptive and is leading the company to the dumps.

2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?

                Myself as a technopreneur? Well, I don’t really know. I don’t even know how to convince people with a simple idea. But one things for sure, that someday I will be one of the greatest technopreneur in this world. As we know, technopreneurship is simply just the same as entrepreneurship, but instead innovating solutions by the use technology and business being combined. Being a technopreneur is not as easy as pie. It would require you skills such as public speaking, convincing your partners to invest to your product, and most of all, building your confidence. Those I mentioned above are the skills that I don’t possess, not yet. Also, generating new ideas is not that easy because nowadays, there are a lot of innovations that created solutions to the problems in the past, with and without computer intervention. I don’t want to claim those ideas made by others just for me to be on top, it would be rude. Being a technopreneur also doesn't guarantee a really bright future. you may must take the laborious approach or even the main road to hell as a result of as our educator aforementioned in our 1st meeting in Technopreneurship, he aforementioned that the primary few years of your business you may must face massive losses in monetary resource as a result of you've got to get out the “dough” or in straightforward definition, you may must face massive expenses on your business for the subsequent few years of your business. In my perspective in life, I’m presently unsure if I’m visiting find yourself being a technopreneur sometime. I don’t very assume that I’ve got the “Next massive Idea” that may modification the course of history of humanity similar to man Jobs and Mr Gates did at their prime. As I detected my life for the past seventeen years of my existence here on earth, I failed to appear to possess this talent on creating and beginning a business or perhaps thinking of running of a business. While my folks back on the times have a mini-store in our very little community, I don’t even understand the costs of the items we have a tendency to are commercialism. I simply don’t feel myself being placed within the field of business. My folks aren't smart in running a business. They perpetually over up in having nice loss in terms of monetary financial gain of their business and therefore the results of it had been terribly unsatisfying. when four consecutive business that that they had they perpetually over up in closing it as a result of they're always contention in terms of monetary financial gain of their business. Thus because the fruit of their love, I over up during this world changing into their son that conjointly familial their terribly distinctive talent – not smart on handling up a business. I detected this terribly distinctive talent of mine after I was on elementary, once my mother set to travel overseas and appearance for a greener pasture or briefly, trying to find an honest job and obtain paid high. My father stayed here however failed to need to be idle for the remainder of his life so he also tries to seek out employment and by chance he became a family watcher of the owner of a really illustrious market here in Davao. Thus I over up with nobody to observe ME around so I used to be thrown dead set the opposite town and that I stayed in my grandmother’s house and he or she conjointly incorporates a mini store there within the village that is up and running hitherto. Thus as I stayed there, I perpetually get to observe his mini store and entertain random customers whereas she will some cleansing round the house. I perpetually get bored whereas simply sitting down there and just wandering through my imagination and once there's a client I always forget the costs of the merchandise. Thus my granny wonders why her daily sales began to depreciate and diminished. She tried totally different methods on her mini store that was terribly effective while not even knowing that I caused all those issues. I saw greatness on my granny on what she is doing. She is incredibly happy on what she is doing while there are many folks who tries to defeat her. As years passed whereas I stayed there, some individuals attempt to contend with my granny however they failing. My granny incorporates a terribly distinctive characteristic that makes her a lot of economical and stronger among her competitors, which was her passion on what she is doing. I learned several things from her even on however she handles his business for nearly thirty years and hitherto. However, while I learned her methods and ways in which to become similar to her it had been simply not enough to be an honest man of affairs or perhaps a technopreneur. Being an IT student and learning technopreneurship at the same time is a good thing for me, because the subject teaches me the basics of being a technological businessman. As of now, I still can’t see myself as a tech entrepreneur because I’m still on the bottom and my understanding of business is so low, like I don’t even know what is marketing. What I am saying is that, I am familiar with the word, but I don’t know what is the process of it, how does it work and how does it help the business to keep running. However, I do have plans in the future, and that is to build my own company, be my own boss and create innovations that came from a simple idea that is incubated very well. I think the only thing that I lack is the confidence and skills to convince a person to be my investors in the business. For me, to be a successful technopreneur is to not learn from successful stories, but to rather learn to the mistakes. As Jack Ma said in an interview (This is not from the movie. This is just from a clip that I’ve watched on the Internet) “Learn from the other people's mistakes, don't learn from the successful stories." and it really made sense. It is very true that successful stories are inspiring and yet interesting. But sometimes, listening from successful stories too much could make you feel that you don’t deserve to be a successful one too.

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

                Having such knowledge, power and wisdom combined to create unique innovations, then why not? No one can limit me for what path I am going to take, but it’s just so sad that I can’t be like Mr Jobs. Being a college dropout having that intelligence is so amazing, because you already know what path you are going to take. The only downside is that you will not get any diploma, and as we all know, diploma is needed to get a job. But does he care about that? No! Because he’s the boss of his company. How I wish that I was like Mr Jobs. Surely it would take me a long time to be like him, or maybe not because who would know? It’s only me. Regarding the question above, I will say, no. Because, I am not in the point of my life where I am like Mr Jobs. As I have said in question #2, I am not a business minded person and I am not also ready to dive in the world of business. I don’t have enough knowledge, power and wisdom to generate any unique ideas that would contribute to the world right now. But still, I will do my best to be a great good technopreneur like he does. Everyone people has an aim to figure and earn cash from their toil. A bit like Steve Jobs, I will be able to not stop trying to find new ideas and strategies that will facilitate, produce new product and services to form my company’s sales maximize. I like the manner in which he did in his business yet it would be better on the off chance that he treat his staff and representatives as a human not a robot. I have perused an article around a representative send a letter to the Chief of Mac John Scully (the previous VP of Pepsi Cola, Steve Employments let him know once this statement "Would you like to spend whatever is left of your life moving sugared water or do you need an opportunity to change the world?"), it states in the letter that Steve Occupations is now and then late in his business arrangements, he doesn't tune in to other people, and has an awful temper. Numerous associates depict Employments as a splendid man who can be an incredible spark and decidedly enchanting. In the meantime his drive for flawlessness is strong to the point that representatives who don't satisfy his needs are looked with rankling verbal assaults that can inevitably wear out even the most propelled of individuals. Occupations pushed his specialists to the statures of dishonest work conditions. Much the same as in the motion picture, he treats his workers like machines that have no impediments. On the off chance that you are found dozing – well be prepared to his lessons since he couldn't care less in the event that you don't have not rest for 52 hours in a row. All he minds is your work. Occupations' drive for flawlessness frequently drives him to be unmindful to other individuals' thoughts. One ex-worker reviews how Employments was requesting that, on rule, he would regularly dismiss anybody's work the first occasion when it was appeared to him. Steve Employments is an incredible agent however simply like other individuals he has additionally that "clouded side" and that would be excluded in the profession way that I have picked. In light of our economy at present, the most ideal approach to make cash is through enterprise yet you can procure more if innovation is a piece of your business. Technopreneurship is the way to win cash through innovation. Individuals are truly battling for survival however they don't have a clue about that the stuffs that could spare them from obliteration and broke is simply adjacent to them. Truly just next to them, they just need a PC and a web association. That is the way stunning it is. Furthermore, most exceedingly terrible of it loads of individuals don't see this stuff and have no arrangement for their future. There are heaps of offers in the web, extending from publicizing to subsidiary business to independent composition and now how might you say it's difficult to do. Indeed, it's up with you, the same number of shrewd individuals state, "regardless of whether you want to or you figure you can't, whichever way you're appropriate." There are truly loads of stuffs in the web that you could acquire from. Or on the other hand you would utilize whatever is a gem of innovation. Technopreneur truly helps this sort of circumstance. Why? Since when you begin a business, you could contract your fellowmen as your workers and you can offer occupation to them. So you take have a money related opportunity and in the meantime, you support other individuals and the economy of your nation. Much the same as Steve Occupations did, he made inventive thought of a PC drove him into changing the PC equipment and programming industry; he made innovation as his business with the utilization of the assets around him. Steve Employments made innovation achieved an unheard of level. He Supposes Unique .More than any other individual; Apple's prime supporter has conveyed advanced innovation to the majority. As a visionary, he saw that PCs could be substantially more than dreary profitability devices. Rather, they could help release human innovativeness and sheer satisfaction. A promoting virtuoso, he thought about exquisite items that caught shoppers' creative abilities. Furthermore, as a constant fussbudget, he concocted manifestations that really conveyed on their guarantee — increasing current standards for adversaries. Indeed, even idea the hardware and the vast majority of the product was Steve Wozniak's work, however it was Occupations who settled on the key showcasing choices: to make a completely amassed PC board, to name it after an organic product, to encase it in plastic and give it the look of a kitchen machine, to welcome investment financing, to employ a powerful advertising firm, to spend vigorously on smooth publicizing, and to pitch it as an "individual computer.".Because Steve Wozniak isn't great in speaking with other individuals, he would prefer to confront the circuit sheets and other stuff than confronting other individuals and trading discussions with them. Regardless of whether you have what it takes and ability however on the off chance that you are absence of self-assurance, at that point you can't grandstand how great you are in that documented. Since in business you should have that persuading power with the end goal for you to deal the items to the general population and draw in financial specialists and Steve Employments has that sort of intensity. Steve Employments does not restrict himself from PCs and iPods. After get terminated from the Apple Organization by his companion and CEO (President) John Sculley. Steve Employments brought The Illustrations Gathering, later named Pixar and turned into the President. The principal film delivered by the organization of Pixar and Disney is the Toy Story. A short time later, Disney obtained Pixar in an all-stock exchange making Steve Occupations the biggest single investor of the organization (The Walt Disney Organization) and one of the top managerial staff. He is one of the noticeable men in the business of PCs and stimulation. It just demonstrates that you should not restrict your capacity of experimenting that can build up your aptitudes as a technopreneur and your business, also.