Steve Jobs As A Technopreneure

Q1: What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneure?

Steve Jobs is a co-founder of the Apple Company. He was once a college student who dropped out due to financial problem. But, this has never stopped Steve from achieving his goal. 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. He soon became a very successful man that created a history in the field of technology and technopreneurship.

These are the following factors that contributed in his success are:

1: Being an ambitious man : Being an ambitious man, Steve Jobs is one of the successful men on the field of technopreneurship. He believe

I never thought of setting up my own business. As Sir Randy said “There is much more to consider than an IQ or talent on something but a skill of determination on what you are doing”. I know being a technopreneur requires experts organizing skills in order to keep on the top of everything. So I’m just going to prepare myself for them. I’ll try to think new ideas and creative of making my own simple things in my own simple world as I don’t have enough talent like other famous technopreneurs. The best thing of being a technopreneur, I can make my own self a boss and accept all the responsibilities for my business. Being employed by someone else offers a slide of advantages. We are being commanded on what we will do and if you don’t turn up one day you won’t get paid. Realizing this make me think again of establishing my own business. It could also help my skills sharpen and I can be productive citizen. I’m not just helping myself but also the other people around me. But first I will get experiences from the other popular technopreneurs because experience is more important. Being technopreneur is really a thing people could consider now days. At the last I can say this I see myself as technopreneur when I’m ready, when I have all the ideas and the factors that being technopreneur must

1. Incremental: Routine business, modest industry.

Example: New coffee shop

2: Imitative: Limitation of a venture, same business model and template

Example: new regional branch and franchise operation.

3: Rent seeking: Business that utilizes standards, regulation and laws to show on value of an enterprise.

Example: Licensing of patented ideas, products or trade secrets.

4: Innovating: Business type based on innovation.

Example: New cure for infectious disease, new DVD format , new memory chip, new ICT enhance home appliances.

Q4: Why it is important to know about technology and technology investment in business plan?

Incorporating the technology in business plan helps to run a more competitive business and technology in workplace allows businesses to expand quickly and efficiently. Business technology such as video conferencing, social networks and virtual office technology has removed workplace boundaries that previously limited business expansion. With business technology companies can target a wider customer base and to grow higher levels. In business plan it is very important to know about technology because without technology nothing is possible.

Business technology improves many things