1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
note: at least 1000 words for every question.....
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
It is nice to know the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs. But before that, we should know first the definition of technopreneurship. A technopreneurship is a entrepreneur who is technology savvy, creative, innovative, dynamic, dares to be different and take the unexplored path, and very passionate about their work. They take challenges and strive to lead their life with greater success. They don't fear to fail. They take failure as a learning experience, a stimulator to look things differently and stride for next challenge. Technopreneurs continuously go through an organic process of continual improvement and always try to redefine the dynamic digital economy.
After watching a movie “Pirate of Silicon Valley”, I can say that Steve Jobs is an intelligent man the way he think, the way he move, and most of all he have a self-confidence to enhance and develop in his own company.
These are the following factors that contributed to the success of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur:
Good Communication
Clearly, good communication skills are crucial to your success in the organization. Competent writing and speaking skills will help you get hired, perform well, and earn promotions. If you decide to go into business for yourself, writing and speaking skills will help you obtain venture capital, promote your product, and manage your employees. These same skills will also help you achieve your personal and social goals.
Steve Jobs is the one who inspiring his employee to do wild things which are creative and more attractive to the people in order to progress his company.
Product Development
Business enterprises turned out products that they could make well. They engaged in selling almost as an afterthought. The emphasis was clearly on the product, which one often conceived and design in isolation from the marketplace. The product was a given, decided upon without input from sales management or consumers. If buyers cannot get what they want, they will buy what they can get. In this case, sellers take advantage of the temporary imbalance in marketplace to sell what they can make rather than what they can sell.
Steve Jobs manage his business well because he know that if his product is more attractive there are lot of people who are engage and buy his product.
Time Management
Apart from talent, time is a salesperson’s most valuable resource. To yield maximum benefit to both the salesperson and the company, it has to be used wisely. The level of individual achievement depends on how well the territory manager utilizes time. Well- managed sales do not simply turn sales representatives loose in assigned sales territories, but rather assist and guide. Whereas maximization of customer contact time may constitute the most efficient use as a salesperson.
Steve Jobs work hard in his business so that it will develop faster. If we talk about time management for Steve Jobs, he really manages his time and aside from that he has an initiative to do what is the next task because the entire plan in his business was already set.
Motivation
It stimulates a salesperson to improve. The heart of sales management is simply the “how-to” aspect of getting salesperson to do their job well. Motives are the “whys” or behavior. A sales manager must understand the “whys” of salespeople’s behavior before taking steps to lead and motivate them. Incentives or stimuli must be developed to fit the specific needs who sell.
Steve Jobs is having a good leader in the terms of entrepreneurship because his only motive is to progress his business and help the people.
Flexibility
It is adaptive to changing marketing conditions. A plan should be sufficiently flexible to take into account the rapidly changing needs of the company and its salespeople. Changes in the supply of salespeople, products, and customers as well as changes in the competitive situation will require adjustments in sales compensation. For instance, a good plan will operate effectively through the ups and downs of the business cycle.
Steve Jobs started his business for setting a good plan and how the business flow and the product that he manage if it is adaptive to the condition of the consumers and to the marketing.
Fairness
An essential element for any sales compensation plan is equity. The plan must be fair to both the company and its sales force. The company should be able to keep selling costs in line with volume. The compensation plan should also protect against windfall gains to salespeople in abnormal time.
Salespeople expect a plan to reward ability and productivity. This requires a constant scrutiny and willingness to revise the plan if necessary. Special care must be taken to even out inequities resulting from territorial differences.
We can see the equity or fairness in Steve Jobs business through his ability and the management of his business.
Competitiveness
The level of compensation must be competitive with the levels offered by other companies. Attractive pay is needed to attract, keep, and develop effective salespeople. Nothing leads high sales turnover faster than a non-competitive sales compensation plan.
If we deal a business we endorse a product that is competitive, attractive and not very expensive just like Steve Jobs do.
These are the following factors that contributed to the success of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur:
Steve jobs became boastful when his business was progress. He didn’t really care that he has a family and his best friend Bill Gates become his enemy. In fact, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs becomes the best enemy because Steve Jobs they wanted to manage the Apple Company. In such time Steve Jobs continue for developing and managing his own business. He earns a lot of money and his company is more sufficient and more productive, there are lots of people who are part in the business company. When he knows that Bill Gates is the developer of the Microsoft they talked to each other and after that the two minds should put into one. Now the Microsoft is now under the Apple Company.
References:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/369728/what_is_technopreneurship.html?cat=3
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
Every one of us needs to earn money to supply our needs in order to survive in this world. There are so many ways to earn money and one of them is to build a business. In Steve Jobs life, he builds a business in the terms of technology by using his skills about the computer and it is called “Technopreneurship”. He earns a lot of money because of his business. Many people will follow the footprints of Steve Jobs and I am one of them, because I believe that when I graduate in my course I will be the one who will become famous or a well-known person in our country.
I can see myself as an entrepreneur because during my elementary days, my parents is have a small piggery and that is the one source of our funds. In that piggery I’ll be the one who is responsible for feeding the pigs and even piglets, and in that time I didn’t feel tired in my responsibility because I really love it. There comes a time that a piglet was being sold in the market and my parents was be thankful and of course they happy because they earn a lot of money that comes from the pigs. After that we raised another piglets and it will become more productive.
Our source of funds is not only a piggery, we have also a farm. The products that are planted in our farm are bananas, corn, rice, vegetables and coffee. The farm is very difficult to manage because there are lots of insects who are roaming around and kill your plants. As a farmer, all we can do is to minimize the insects that are underlying in our plants is to spray a chemicals. As an entrepreneur I discussed to you in how to manage a plant properly. First, we discuss in how to manage a bananas. A banana is not really difficult to rise but you must be careful when you plant it because it is died when you expose it in the sunlight. When it grows up you must maintain to clean the area where they grow in order to grow faster and to lessen the days that you are wanted to reap it. Second is the corn and rice, these plants is very difficult to manage because during planting time you need to spend a lot of time and make sure that the area where the corn planted is well cultivated and lesser grass in order the corn will grow faster. The rice is similar to corn the only difference is the corn is planted in a cultivated land while the rice is planted in the wet surface. Third are vegetables, the vegetables usually planted in the dry soil in planting, you must plant it early in the morning or in a twilight time, do not plant during sunny day because it died. You must take good care the vegetables during in the middle stage of it or its growing time and you must fertilize it well and dig it in medium amount of water and make sure that the area where you are planting the vegetables are clean and well cultivated. The last is the coffee. The coffee is the easiest to plant among the rest and you don’t need a fertilizer to fertilize this plant and all you can do is to clean the area where they grow. Coffee is the best product also in terms of the characteristics and money, the coffee is the high level income compare to other products because it is efficient and one of the high level demand in our country.
In my college life, I stayed at my auntie’s house in order to save the money of my parents because boarding house is very expensive. In such time my auntie is have a small food house near at the DAVAO CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. I was so very curious and I want to know more how to handle a different kind of business and that’s why I told to my auntie that I will help her in her business. After my class and if I have a vacant time I will go directly to the food house of my auntie and I will help her at the same time I observe in how to manage a business. The business of my auntie was last only for one year because the rental fee of the food house was very expensive. My auntie invested another business which is large category of business and it is the COCA-COLA Company. The Coca-Cola Company is a beverage company, manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers more than 400 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves 1.6 billion servings each day. The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with nearly 500 sparkling and still brands. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready-to-drink teas and coffee. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate.
She started a business with almost half-million of capital. This business is very difficult to manage in the start because it takes a lot of time to manage it by adjusting, you must know how to check the stock or it is called the inventory and then every time the stock is going to deliver you must check it and you must check also the stock who is coming in.
References:
http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
"The Pirates of Silicon Valley" mostly portray Bill Gates yelling or looking obsessive, and Steve Jobs smiling beatifically, so I tuned in expecting another piece of anti-Microsoft propaganda. In actuality, the movie mostly sticks to Steve Jobs' story, and it is none too flattering. We get Steve Jobs the abusive employer, Steve Jobs the deadbeat dad, and Steve jobs the acid-tripper. The worst thing Bill Gates is seen doing is speeding.
"The Pirates of Silicon Valley" takes us to the beginning of both Apple and Microsoft. Steve Jobs' Apple is birthed out of Berkley in the days of beards and love beads. Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak have a cute little computer they've invented which is causing a lot of excitement. Eventually, they're getting orders, then money. Soon Apple is a booming company. Meanwhile, Bill Gates and his buddy, Paul Allen, bluff their way into creating an operating system for the newfangled machine, the Altair. Then they bluff their way into licensing DOS to IBM. Soon they're making a lot of money, although not as much as Apple. Apple steals the graphical user interface from Xerox's PARC labs, and then Microsoft steals it from Apple. That's pretty much as far as the film takes us.
Now, back to the question, would I take the same path that Steve Jobs took? It’s a Yes, in the sense that, I admired his skills, his courage and his attitude of being a risk-taker. And a No, I don’t agree to his style on managing his employees, I can’t imagine myself working for 90 hours straight!. And there was a time that he pulled the plug, cutting the electrical supply of the computer his employee had worked on a project. Because of that, his employees have to start from scratch again. And that happens on a regular basis! Can you imagine that? I recalled his conversation with his employee in the movie, “Steve not now! I do not have the power to defend my unguarded system!” But Steve only said that “there is nothing to defend of”.
I can be a successful technopreneur someday. I can make a business that is beyond to my limitations, I will choose the right business for me. I am ready to risk everything to achieve my goals to enable to follow the footsteps of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates also is not just like easy but I have the opportunity to follow it with the help of what I understand from the movie “Pirates of the Silicon Valley”. I can also be a leader that influences and inspires others to believe in themselves and follow the vision for their future. I can help also to the other people to have a job because this days many graduates have their own degree are jobless and it will be much larger the number in the following year.
Steve Jobs is one of the biggest names in the computer industry. He even makes it to the point that he had reached the peak of his success. As an Information Technology student, I cannot deny the fact that Steven Jobs had a big contribution in the computer industry today and to the development of strengthening the technology today. But other people didn't know about the contribution of Steve Jobs in the field of business and technology today. He is in line with those brilliant minds in the history like Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilee, Rene Descartes and many other famous people who really established their names in their field of expertise. Steve Jobs success can be a motivation to everyone not only on the field of technology and entrepreneurship but also to their own fields. Becoming successful doesn't mean that you are taking the same path of other successful people. You, as an individual must establish your own identity and signature on which you are in making and taking the same path that you are going to take. Establishing your own career by not copying the idea of other, why not? Take it as a challenge to build your own strong foundation.
after I watched the movie entitled Pirates of the Silicon Valley it enlighten me about almost everything pertaining about technoprenuership, it is fair to said that I feel this inner urge of vying the possibilities that a technoprenuer holds in his hand and also the excitement and thrill lingers in me because if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are one of the successful technoprenuer in the world and made them successful in terms of earning money and lots of money, and so that would be possible to me also because I am a technoprenuer and I also believe that no technoprenuer would be less successful if he or she apply the fundamentals and right attitude as a technoprenuer, so more or less I could foresee that being a successful technoprenuer would mean a better future but in my case I would not distract myself in focusing about the riches that I could have but proving to myself that I could also be able to achieve my goals in life whether be as a technoprenuer or as a individual and of course it would be the grace of God that will bring me to my highest peak of success.
I can see myself matured enough on handling stress from the work and setting aside personal problems when I am at work. This could help ourselves from breaking down and helps us grow stronger when we know where to place each of what is concerned. Handling failures are needed. When a person has overcome failures he wins because winners never quit. They fight back, start anew and move forward, they get started new ideas and proposals and make them into reality. As Judith L. Glick-Smith says “setbacks are seen as challenges and do not discourage them”. Life has its ups and downs not only failed people have experienced it but also those who succeed because they never stop trying and believing.
Reference:
http://www.leisuresuit.net/Webzine/articles/silicon_valley.shtml
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