I wake up early this morning, just when I thought it was still early. But, as i turn to my watch, I'm shocked to see that it's 6.45am! Jtmgd.at! Im late!. I hurriedly took a bath, brushed my teeth and changed clothes! Oh God I'm late... I hurriedly walked my way to school, took the shortest path and as I entered the school I checked the university time, but to my dismay, my watch's time as well as my phone's time was not the same, with a difference of 3 minutes!..
As I entered the engineering building, I noticed that my classmates are outside our room!.
I knew that our instructor was also late! Im relieved to know that Im early than to our instructor.. Haha
Monday, July 26, 2010
no class
Yesterday, Randy didn't meet us in our class. (FTS)
Some of our classmates said, he just arrived from manila. Later on, one of our classmates said that Randy will meet us tomorrow.
Some of our classmates said, he just arrived from manila. Later on, one of our classmates said that Randy will meet us tomorrow.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Acquaintance Party
Yesterday, July 23, 2010 we had our Acquaintance Party at the social hall here in USEP.
It was very fun and tiring!. It was the best Acquaintance Party ever.
Technopreneurship Lecture
Last week friday, July 16, 2010 we had our lecture in technopreneurship. Randy, our facilitator discussed with us his lecture notes. We had a great time listening to his lectures. He had a great humor combined with excellent teaching skills.
After a while, one of our classmates fell asleep during his lecture.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
IT Elective - Assignment 1
After watching the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley",
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.....
Answers:
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
Who is Steve Jobs anyway? And what are his contributions to the world?
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple.
Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak and others, they designed, developed, and marketed personal computers assembled in Jobs' garage. That was the beginning of Apple Computers, which revolutionized the computing industry and made Jobs a multi-millionaire before he was 30 years old. He was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. Steve Jobs' history in business has contributed much to the symbolic image of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant.
Steve Jobs once said: “I want to put a dent in the universe,” – an inspiring quotation he said from the movie. This indicates his intention to be in the frontier of technopreneurs. Making big amounts of money while giving the best he can give to his costumers.
This only proves that Steve Jobs is a successful technopreneur, but not only he gained success in life, he also experienced failures. Discussed below are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs.
First is faith. Steve Jobs didn’t always know what he was doing in his life. He dropout of college wherein fact his parents spend their entire life savings just to admit him on college. Many gave up on him and had little faith in his abilities. But, Steve 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. I remembered a piece of his speech he delivered at Stanford University way back on 2005, here it goes; “You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future”.
Second is passion. “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,” says Jobs. From his first days working at his garage, 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. 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.
Third is courage. Steve Jobs has the guts and courage to maintain his respectable icon. He dared to challenge the challenging markets and sailed the stormy seas onto his success.
Fourth is risk taker. Steve Jobs didn’t turn his back on every challenge thrown at him. He even beautifully surpassed it with ease. His got an attitude of aesthetics wherein he wants all his creations to be aesthetic and with beauty and art.
Fifth is innovation. Steve Jobs is 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. He wants innovation with his works and be the first in the market with new and exciting technologies.
Sixth is vision. 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 that you needed an Apple computer to do it.
And that is it, the factors that paved the way to success of one of the world’s top icon and technopreneur, Mr. Steven P. Jobs.
As the saying goes, “what goes up must go down”, in every successful journey comes with a twist of unfortunate events. And Steve Jobs is no exception to the rule.
As I googled the world wide web looking for my answer, It turned out that Steve Jobs’ biggest failure was that he dropped out of college, even though his parents struggled to get him there. And, ten years after starting one of the most innovative computer companies in the world, the APPLE Computer, he was fired by the board. Could you imagine getting fired from a multi-billion dollar company that you started in your own garage with your friends? – hell NO!.
But Steve Jobs said in the graduating class at Stanford University that: “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.” The good thing to his failure was he turned his failure into success, all by his attitude.
Steve Jobs is not a perfect being though he is a perfectionist one. He is also bossy and demanding. His obsession with art and aesthetics leads to hating him by his employees.Which is a form of unhealthy relationship between his employees.
References:
http://ageekspot.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/steve-jobs-turned-failure-into-success-fox-business/
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/568/Chipping-His-Way-To-The-Top-Jobs-Success-Factors.html
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
Before I tackle my answer to the question stated above, let me first discuss to you my fellow students the meaning of technopreneurship and engaging yourself to be a technopreneur. Without further ado, here we go.
What is technopreneurship?
Technopreneurship is a lucrative business; take for example Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The key people who innovated and brought us now what they called personal computers. Can you imagine your life living without computers? – I bet not. People nowadays are very attached to computers. Updating status with their facebook accounts and as well as chatting through networking sites. All thanks to the people who innovated and brought its technology to the masses.
Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an organization, a nation and the world. Strategic directions or decision-making processes are becoming more demanding and complex. This requires universities, and in site professional development programs and training to produce strategic thinkers who will have skills to succeed in a rapidly changing global environment.
What is technopreneur?
The one who is brave enough to operate, to manage, to own and to take the risk of operating any legal form of business through the aid of technology known to man. The one who manages all the factors of production to carry on with production. But as time pass by, the purview of the word “technopreneur” changed dramatically and became a comprehensive word that signifies a lot of different aspects and forms of business.
Due to the changing markets, technopreneurship rose, the word is self explanatory, but let’s try to understand and try to have a look at this word in more detail, and the essence of the said word, technopreneurship. What is a technopreneur?-well, this could be understood as the new age of entrepreneur wherein, taking full use of technology to come out with something new and unique to current market as well as to innovate. And if he succeeds, he will exploit his achievement and make money out of it.
What differentiates a technopreneur from any other business man is the way a technopreneur operates his business. A technopreneur’s business is generally marked with a high growth potential and high leverage of knowledge and intellectual property. What is more, he always have a viable exit mechanism.
High-tech and entrepreneurial skills are driving our economy back to prosperity. Technopreneursip-merging technology prowess and entrepreneurial skills- is the real source of power in today’s knowledge-based economy. A technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from nonsense while integrating a variety of ideas from diverse groups and disciplines.
Creativity is breaking the conventional mental blocks and playing with imagination and possibilities, leading to new and meaningful connections and outcomes while interacting with ideas, people and the environment. Technopreneurship is the only source of long-run sustainable competitive advantage. In an era of man-made brainpower industries, individual, corporate, and national economic success will all require both new and more extensive skills sets than have been required in the past. By themselves skills don't guarantee success. They have to be put together in successful organizations. But without skills and technopreurship there are no successful organizations.
So, if you want to be a technopreneur, start with assessing yourself, if you are really for it. And be very honest about it. You can’t cheat yourself can you? What is your interest? Are you really interested in being a technopreneur or are you joining the bandwagon? Do you have the aptitude to be a technopreneur?.
Going back to the question; how do you see yourself as a technopreneur? – Well, I see myself as a lucrative technopreneur. I will give my best onto my chosen field as well as discovering new things. To be a unique provider in every way I can. I will impart my knowledge (if I have, just kidding) and technical skills to help my chosen field to grow and blossom before my eyes. I want to be a front-runner in the field of technopreneurship, providing with state-of-the-art technologies that will not only help me but also my fellow countrymen. I will revolutionize the technology here in our country and onto the world. I will show to them that we, Filipinos are also technologically as well as intellectually equipped to manage and produce globally standard products and businesses thus, creating more job opportunities to every Filipino here and around the globe.
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagmc160.php
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
Steve Jobs left his big dent in the technopreneurial world. He managed to climb to the top of his success; he even enjoyed his career and became a multimillionare. He possessed great skills and wisdom to overcome difficulties he had encountered in his life. Steve Jobs utilized the available raw technology and came up with exciting ideas and products that helped his company to grow and develop.
Summing up his great assets and skills, he could become as successful and wealthy as Bill Gates, we all know that Bill had only stolen Apples’ technology and make it his own, thus leading to the creation of WINDOWS to compete with MAC. But we also knew Steve Jobs made a mistake to trust Bill and hand him the prototypes of his machines. If Steve not made those moves, then most probably he would have taken the place of Bil Gates who enjoyed Job’s technology.
Now, back to the question, would I take the same path that Steve Jobs took? - Yes and No, 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 noting to defend of”. This kind of relationship leads to unhealthy working relationship that stirs between Steve and his employees. It’s just like a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode.
Of all the good traits Steve Jobs possess, I could say I wanted to follow his footsteps. I wanted to be as successful as he is now. I always wanted to have a life that is as good as he had. But I should also consider that having good traits alone doesn’t do it all. I should work hard and also study.
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.....
Answers:
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
Who is Steve Jobs anyway? And what are his contributions to the world?
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple.
Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak and others, they designed, developed, and marketed personal computers assembled in Jobs' garage. That was the beginning of Apple Computers, which revolutionized the computing industry and made Jobs a multi-millionaire before he was 30 years old. He was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. Steve Jobs' history in business has contributed much to the symbolic image of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant.
Steve Jobs once said: “I want to put a dent in the universe,” – an inspiring quotation he said from the movie. This indicates his intention to be in the frontier of technopreneurs. Making big amounts of money while giving the best he can give to his costumers.
This only proves that Steve Jobs is a successful technopreneur, but not only he gained success in life, he also experienced failures. Discussed below are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs.
First is faith. Steve Jobs didn’t always know what he was doing in his life. He dropout of college wherein fact his parents spend their entire life savings just to admit him on college. Many gave up on him and had little faith in his abilities. But, Steve 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. I remembered a piece of his speech he delivered at Stanford University way back on 2005, here it goes; “You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future”.
Second is passion. “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,” says Jobs. From his first days working at his garage, 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. 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.
Third is courage. Steve Jobs has the guts and courage to maintain his respectable icon. He dared to challenge the challenging markets and sailed the stormy seas onto his success.
Fourth is risk taker. Steve Jobs didn’t turn his back on every challenge thrown at him. He even beautifully surpassed it with ease. His got an attitude of aesthetics wherein he wants all his creations to be aesthetic and with beauty and art.
Fifth is innovation. Steve Jobs is 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. He wants innovation with his works and be the first in the market with new and exciting technologies.
Sixth is vision. 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 that you needed an Apple computer to do it.
And that is it, the factors that paved the way to success of one of the world’s top icon and technopreneur, Mr. Steven P. Jobs.
As the saying goes, “what goes up must go down”, in every successful journey comes with a twist of unfortunate events. And Steve Jobs is no exception to the rule.
As I googled the world wide web looking for my answer, It turned out that Steve Jobs’ biggest failure was that he dropped out of college, even though his parents struggled to get him there. And, ten years after starting one of the most innovative computer companies in the world, the APPLE Computer, he was fired by the board. Could you imagine getting fired from a multi-billion dollar company that you started in your own garage with your friends? – hell NO!.
But Steve Jobs said in the graduating class at Stanford University that: “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.” The good thing to his failure was he turned his failure into success, all by his attitude.
Steve Jobs is not a perfect being though he is a perfectionist one. He is also bossy and demanding. His obsession with art and aesthetics leads to hating him by his employees.Which is a form of unhealthy relationship between his employees.
References:
http://ageekspot.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/steve-jobs-turned-failure-into-success-fox-business/
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/568/Chipping-His-Way-To-The-Top-Jobs-Success-Factors.html
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
Before I tackle my answer to the question stated above, let me first discuss to you my fellow students the meaning of technopreneurship and engaging yourself to be a technopreneur. Without further ado, here we go.
What is technopreneurship?
Technopreneurship is a lucrative business; take for example Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The key people who innovated and brought us now what they called personal computers. Can you imagine your life living without computers? – I bet not. People nowadays are very attached to computers. Updating status with their facebook accounts and as well as chatting through networking sites. All thanks to the people who innovated and brought its technology to the masses.
Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an organization, a nation and the world. Strategic directions or decision-making processes are becoming more demanding and complex. This requires universities, and in site professional development programs and training to produce strategic thinkers who will have skills to succeed in a rapidly changing global environment.
What is technopreneur?
The one who is brave enough to operate, to manage, to own and to take the risk of operating any legal form of business through the aid of technology known to man. The one who manages all the factors of production to carry on with production. But as time pass by, the purview of the word “technopreneur” changed dramatically and became a comprehensive word that signifies a lot of different aspects and forms of business.
Due to the changing markets, technopreneurship rose, the word is self explanatory, but let’s try to understand and try to have a look at this word in more detail, and the essence of the said word, technopreneurship. What is a technopreneur?-well, this could be understood as the new age of entrepreneur wherein, taking full use of technology to come out with something new and unique to current market as well as to innovate. And if he succeeds, he will exploit his achievement and make money out of it.
What differentiates a technopreneur from any other business man is the way a technopreneur operates his business. A technopreneur’s business is generally marked with a high growth potential and high leverage of knowledge and intellectual property. What is more, he always have a viable exit mechanism.
High-tech and entrepreneurial skills are driving our economy back to prosperity. Technopreneursip-merging technology prowess and entrepreneurial skills- is the real source of power in today’s knowledge-based economy. A technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from nonsense while integrating a variety of ideas from diverse groups and disciplines.
Creativity is breaking the conventional mental blocks and playing with imagination and possibilities, leading to new and meaningful connections and outcomes while interacting with ideas, people and the environment. Technopreneurship is the only source of long-run sustainable competitive advantage. In an era of man-made brainpower industries, individual, corporate, and national economic success will all require both new and more extensive skills sets than have been required in the past. By themselves skills don't guarantee success. They have to be put together in successful organizations. But without skills and technopreurship there are no successful organizations.
So, if you want to be a technopreneur, start with assessing yourself, if you are really for it. And be very honest about it. You can’t cheat yourself can you? What is your interest? Are you really interested in being a technopreneur or are you joining the bandwagon? Do you have the aptitude to be a technopreneur?.
Going back to the question; how do you see yourself as a technopreneur? – Well, I see myself as a lucrative technopreneur. I will give my best onto my chosen field as well as discovering new things. To be a unique provider in every way I can. I will impart my knowledge (if I have, just kidding) and technical skills to help my chosen field to grow and blossom before my eyes. I want to be a front-runner in the field of technopreneurship, providing with state-of-the-art technologies that will not only help me but also my fellow countrymen. I will revolutionize the technology here in our country and onto the world. I will show to them that we, Filipinos are also technologically as well as intellectually equipped to manage and produce globally standard products and businesses thus, creating more job opportunities to every Filipino here and around the globe.
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagmc160.php
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
Steve Jobs left his big dent in the technopreneurial world. He managed to climb to the top of his success; he even enjoyed his career and became a multimillionare. He possessed great skills and wisdom to overcome difficulties he had encountered in his life. Steve Jobs utilized the available raw technology and came up with exciting ideas and products that helped his company to grow and develop.
Summing up his great assets and skills, he could become as successful and wealthy as Bill Gates, we all know that Bill had only stolen Apples’ technology and make it his own, thus leading to the creation of WINDOWS to compete with MAC. But we also knew Steve Jobs made a mistake to trust Bill and hand him the prototypes of his machines. If Steve not made those moves, then most probably he would have taken the place of Bil Gates who enjoyed Job’s technology.
Now, back to the question, would I take the same path that Steve Jobs took? - Yes and No, 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 noting to defend of”. This kind of relationship leads to unhealthy working relationship that stirs between Steve and his employees. It’s just like a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode.
Of all the good traits Steve Jobs possess, I could say I wanted to follow his footsteps. I wanted to be as successful as he is now. I always wanted to have a life that is as good as he had. But I should also consider that having good traits alone doesn’t do it all. I should work hard and also study.
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