ASSIGNMENT 1

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




Personal Analization:

To wrap up the point, Steve have the following to his success:

*Fashion to work.
*Love.
*Perseverance.
*Knowledge.
*Uniqueness.
*Leadership.

But, this things make him fails in business:

*Bostful.
*Hard Headed.
*Selfish.

Which leads to his failure.


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2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?



I'm maybe bad in business manners, for I consider myself as "easy-money-spender"...

But I can improve my interpersonal communicating skills, for its the other way of making business.
Im may not speak fluently, but a little pollish will do for me.

And so, I see myself as a SEED in technopreneur. Needs assistance, fertilizer, sort of light and water and enough knowledge to bear fruit. I really want to learn more in business, like how to handle your own money properly, spend it wisely and know the true essence of money. We may not that wealthy enough, but in small cases like vice on computer and cigar, its like investing in nothing I think. I really hope, that business will turn me more responsible to things that really matter. Applying its concept to my daily life would change my attitude and perception to life.

Truly, I really want to be rich, infact thats one of my goals in life, second to happiness. And I know, business is probably one of its pre-requisite to achieve my goals, this may start and ables to stable my life in the future. I want to travel different places on earth, and ecplore more to gain knowledge and ideas. To manage my own company, and lead various of employees and organization, I want to have a wealthy family, full of faith and pack with love. And so, business is more likely the key to it.

Technopreneur as stated above, will start in a pinch of IDEA, like a seed, to be planted and nourish properly. I, as a seed, is hunger of knowledge regarding business. Its so hard to start as a seed in a bunch of trees surround me. But ill make use of their trunks, and climb as I reach the top to see the SUNLIGHT of life. I will scatter rapidly and spread my vines throughout the world, with strength and courage to face my enemies.

Im far beyond of being a technopreneur, lack of vitamins and minerals in bussiness, and fully needs assistance for nourishment. Maybe I can consider myself as "newbie" in transactions like technopreneurship, but yet, I am always open in grabbing opportunities like this. Hunger in excitement and wonder of how business will take my exploration here in earth. My greatest achievement would be "happiness in Life" and I assure that this one mostly will lead me that way. Beginner like me will surely face difficulties in handling business, yet its serve as a challenge for my part, for I am the type of person who loves challenges and games.

Lastly, I can't be the ideal businessman in the world of trading, but I will try my best and bet my 20% of my life span, to contribute at my best on improving the technopreneurship here in Philippines.

"A seed will surely grow and soon to bear fruits, as it is packed with proper assistance..."


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




Diffinitely Yes! For the act of steve is nearly perfect of what should an ambitious being filled with goals and perception in life should have to.

Stating the lunch of steve works:

While the 26-year-old Wozniak was content with his computer hobbyist group, the 21-year-old Jobs had a greater vision for the future. After seeing a computer that Wozniak had designed for himself, Jobs began to think about the marketability of such products. He convinced Wozniak to leave his job at Hewlett Packard and together the two began working on constructing a personal computer. Jobs’ passion and Wozniak’s engineering talent would soon combine to become a revolutionizing force in the computer industry.

Working out of Jobs’ bedroom, the duo designed the Apple I, and later moved to Jobs’ garage to build the prototype. In order to raise the money they needed to finance their company, Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his programmable calculator. With $1,300 in capital, the pair created Apple Company and within weeks, they were taking orders.

Jobs had secured the company’s first sale of 50 Apple I computers for a price of $666 each. The success of Apple I led the pair to design a successor, the Apple II. With a sleeker design, a disk drive, an open system and a new plastic casing that featured the Apple logo, the Apple II achieved even greater success. Within just three years, Apple Computer had experienced a growth of 700%. In December 1980, the company became a publicly traded corporation and Jobs’ stature continued to grow.

Competition from IBM soon began to threaten Apple’s position on top of the market. The release of Apple III did not come with the similar success that its predecessors had, nor did the release of Lisa. Apple II had numerous design flaws while Lisa was too expensive and thus was not commercially successful. In order to maintain its competitive edge, Jobs decided to convince then-President and CEO of Pepsi John Scully to become Apple’s CEO.

In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh, which became the first commercially successful computer with a graphic interface. Over 400,000 Macs were sold in its first year of production. But, while the company was experiencing success, an internal power struggle was also taking place. In 1985, Wozniak left the company and Jobs was stripped of his duties by the board of directors. Jobs resigned in protest, but that would not be the end of him.

Jobs went on to found NeXT Computer, a company that focused on educational computing. While its workstation was technologically advanced, it proved to be too expensive to gain widespread appeal. But, NeXT did experience modest success in the scientific and academic fields, developing such products as the DSP chip and the built-in Ethernet port. In 1986, Jobs also purchased Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division for $10 million and created Pixar, a new computer animation company that has since partnered with Disney to create such hit films as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

In 1996, NeXT was bought by Apple for $204 million and Jobs was brought back on as an interim CEO of the company he had originally founded. As CEO of Apple once again, Jobs cut a number of projects that he saw as being useless and began to turn his attention to the iMac. Since the iMac was introduced in 1998, Apple has seen its sales rise significantly. The company continued to branch out with such successful products as the iPod and iTunes. Apple currently has 14,800 employees and grosses over $17 billion in revenues.

In 2005, The Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion making Jobs Disney’s largest single shareholder with 7% of the company’s stock. While his aggressive personality and demanding management style have often been criticized, Jobs is undoubtedly a visionary, who turned his dreams for the personal computer into a billion dollar enterprise.

Reference: http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/568/On-The-Job-The-Launch-Of-Apple.html

It is merely stated, that Steve start on its success, and so, for me, I should adopt some traits of Steve has, like the fashion to work, uniqeness and love to owns perception, but, only one thing pinch me off, that i should not have to copy from steve, that is to being boastful and self centered in life, because, success is equated by:

"idea - surroundings (people) - works - faith"

.\../ tnx..