Questions: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?
My retort:1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
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There are many things or factors that lead to Steve Jobs Failure and Sucess. These factors could have been Distructive and constructive in his life and career. My retort:-Everything im gonna state is in accordance or basing to what i have depicted about the movie.so here's some factors that contributed to the succes and failure of Steve Jobs:
Success:
He was a Gifted man He's biological father was a mathematical professor- so was blessed with some mathematics genuis genes from his father.
He is amazingly Creative and Such an Artist He is an explorer trying new things that can widen his thoughts He has A high IQ His intellegence was pure-Unlike Bill Gates, Steve Jobs was founded Apple and Invent Macintosh systems by his own guts and mind
power with the help of His Bestfriend Steve Wozniak.
While Bill Gates is very wise in the sense that he steal some ideas and then improve it.
He has Strong will power- We know that Steve Jobs came from scratch and he did everthing just for his creation would be recognize and will be used by the people for a greater purpose.
He is Hardworking- Through the movie, i had realized that hardwork is the answer to sucess
here is the equation: Intellenge + Hardwork= Success(But not full sucess)
He Generates his own Ideas He picks up good and Intellegent employees and programmers in his campany Organized-He organized everything and making sure that his men were as hardworking as he is
Determined- He is aiming high and have it in a short time.
Failures:
He was hot headed- He is a hot tempered person. He is easily get angry
He was unsociable- He do not know how to socialize to other people specialy to his men.
Sarcastic Selfish- I drew up to this judgement upon him because of the fact that he deny his own daughter to be his.
Depressed- He's always have wanted to have mother. Maybe this is the reason why is so unstable
Low Emotinal Quotient- a business intellegent man would be very sucessfull if he knows how to contorl his emostions and how to
socialize to other people.
Carefree Careless He was so harch to his employees- In accordance with the movie he almost removed his mens right to sleep and to relax.
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
Being a 21 Year old citizen of the Philippines and a neophyte for womanhood now, I can vision a lot of things in my life for the future. But I am holding unto Almighty God’s promise in Jeremiah 29:11 “for I know the plans I have for you; plan to prosper you and not to harm you; a plan to give you hope and a future”.Seeing myself as a technopreneur ignites my will to become a successful business woman someday because I believe that being an Information Technology Student is not just a dreamer that is just stuck in seeing oneself to graduate with a degree course, to get a good job and to be an employee of a superior leading company of any kind but to be an exquisite and triumphant Business Creator, Handler or owner someday of course with the use of new innovations of technology.
Being a 21-year Old special creation of God, I knew myself that well. I know my Likes and Dislikes. My dreams, aims, goals, vision, mission or whatever you may call that, I knew and know it. Maybe someday as I get older this goals will change and vary due o the passing of time.
When I imagine myself to be a technopreneurship, I somehow find some part of my personal questions about and of my existence here on earth and also sometimes I can draw a theory or a premise that I am destined to become an Information Technology (IT) expert and Professional and surely a Business-woman someday.
I knew myself quiet well, so I can say that when I become a Technopreneur someday, I become victorious in my chosen career because I’ll make sure that when I walk down the isle of my graduation day ceremony in USEP, I am that much equip and will be well-educated and well-trained graduate student of IT and I will make sure that I would apply all my learning in this institution and of course the application of my erudition in this subject (TECHNOPRENEURSHIP).
Ok, I will state some scenarios that I have foreseen in my super amazing imaginary land:
When I graduate in College I will have my masteral and after having an equip (but no full knowledge because every day we are learning trough our own experience in life) knowledge about My career, I will attend seminars that will help me undergo sophisticated trainings about putting and handling out a business with the use of technology, I will also seek advice from a very fine business consultant that will help me think, consider and realize a business that will fit to me; that will fit to my profession, to my concepts and ideas and that will fit to my capacity and my attitude and character as a being . After that, when I know I am financially capable and proficient of building a Technopreneurship (business with technology) I will now build my business. Some opportunities do come like these businesses were offered to you by those giant companies providing a capital for your business as what our Subject Handler said last time. Some Companies are offering a deal that will also bring fort benefit to them.
Surely, I will be wise in my future TECHNOPRENERSHIP and will make sure to it that this business of mine will grow, boom and will be victorious. In every business there are always problems and concerns but it is not an excuse that you deal it illegally or the way that you will put the business, the employees and the consumers at risks.
Many successful Business man and woman came from scratch just like Steven Jobs and Bill Gates but based on the movie, I have learned and realized that one must be wise. Wise in the essence that you will improve someone else’s invention or discovery while not playing dirty games towards those person. Triumphant Business man or woman must begin having a companion, company of friends or anyone who can or would contribute some ideas, lending finances etch. It maybe a business or a deal by a company or a two’s or a partner just like Bill Gates and his best friend and a College classmate in Harvard University Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs and his close friend and partner Steve Wozniak. “Two head are better than one”. This is a famous saying way back decades. So I realize that have such a company or partner/s would be better in exploring, creating, discovering and building some ideas that will result to a very brilliant outcome that leads to do good to the people.
I can see myself 10 years from now, I will be a strong-willed person though I am a sanguine because I know in the range of that era or year some things will be very transient, dynamic and tangible. So, being a Technopreneur I must consider what the people practically need, not just what they want but what they need. So being like that, I must have a convincing power that enables them to speak out (people, client or customer) what they want from my product or what service can I convey towards them, it’s either need or want or both. I must use some strategy that will benefit my clients and its users for good.
*Entrepreneur, one who assumes the responsibility and the risk for a business operation with the expectation of making a profit. The entrepreneur generally decides on the product, acquires the facilities, and brings together the labor force, capital, and production materials. If the business succeeds, the entrepreneur reaps the reward of profits; if it fails, he or she takes the loss.
Source:
"Entrepreneur." Microsoft® Encarta® 2007 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2006. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
By this connotation about what is really the essence of being an entrepreneur. I can therefore conclude that being a business woman with the use of Technology I must be very wise in handling such things so that I will not fail. Although when I will fail at least I will have my lesson from it.
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
-Being a smart and innovative person as his, YES but the way he handles his life I could not just agree with him with what he had done in his life. Certainly no. It is Miserable.All I mean is Steven Jobs is so much talented. He has skills that some persons do not have. He has a brilliant mind that can conceive different ideas about the computers and everything about it. If I was he, I would rather not mess my life with such an ego-centric character, super paranoid attitude and having selfish desires and ambitions.
I can’t fully understand his Character. He is a miserable person although he has all this gift and talents maybe because of his childhood story that his mother left him. It is so sad that truly there is no perfect in this world, whether it is a person as a human being or in a sense of every situation that we have been through. There are no such perfect things. You a smart but you don’t have a sanctuary that you can call family. It such a very sad thing, knowing that you wanted a mother very much but then, you have none. And no matter what you do you can’t find her. It will make one fill empty, purposeless and full of mess. It broke his heart so much that because of the pain he is suffering from it made an erasable scar in his heart and on his being. How pitiful he is.
Everything that he was doing was almost in the perfect tract to success and victory but he had just wasted it all because of his high temperament (he is a high-tempered person -i mean he can't really control his emotions).
To know Steve Jobs better here are some of his biographies:
* Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well- known for being the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Jobs is currently a member of Walt Disney Company's Board of Directors.
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 has earned him a devoted following.
Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in over 230 both awarded patents and patent applications related to a range from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), glass members, speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.*
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs
Steve Jobs is really2 handsome in the movie! truly, Hes is..His life seems to be in a right tract. He had some friend whom who are there for him. Lending a helping hand to him. He has a best friend with the same name as he who was very supportive to him but not as Jobs really changed from good to bad.
He has a very beautiful girlfriend who loves him so much and also supports his very ways although he doesn't have a mother who could have been there for him taking care of him, love him all the way. he found his sanctuary and safe place in the bosom of his friends, best friend and girlfriend.
The sad thing is he do not know how to handle everything. He could have been very successful because of his intellegence. in fact he has a very high IQ (intellectual Quotient) but he have a low, i think very low EQ (Emotional Quotient).
He made a very great mistake because in times of his depressions and downfalls he did not call God to comfort and guide him. In all his ways and in all his life all through the Movie (Pirates of the Silicon Valley),he did not recognize GOD in his life. A man can have everything wealth, golds, dollars, intellegence and all the treasures of this world but he cannot have the real peace and happiness in life if he dont have A JESUS in his life. A rich and smart man can buy anything he wants but he cannot buy salvation, peace and real abundance. On;y im JESUS alone we can find our longed sanctuary.
I was a bit disappointed to him when he rejected His girlfriend and his daughter. They could have been a perfect family but because of his pride everything messed up. He did not mary Arlene because of i dont know. HE did not claim the child that Arlene was bearing for to him it was not his child. How Selfish!. I pity baby lisa for that. Her own father rejected her. It's a total disgrace to arlene.
what i thought was i knew that Steve Jobs was convicted and was convinced that the child or Lisa is his really. But because of his "i dont know" character he deserted the two without even supplying and supporting them financially and morally.
But after all these failures it seemed to be remedied when Bill gates and Steven Jobs combind power in the end.
JESUS' FREAK!
Im Addicted to you my LORD.
