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

In our life, we really want to be rich because being rich can lessen all the burdens in our life, though I can't really make us happy because money can't buy everything, but still generally speaking, most of us really need it. In the field of business, we can be on the road of cycle where we can be on the top of ladder or even on the ground where cockroaches lives, if you know what I really mean. In being a successful business man, the way how we approach and the way we respond on certain situations are very useful and important of course. Every move we make can either lead us to being successful or being a misfortune loser in this field. I've figured out that in this field of business, it isn't important if the inventor of the inventions is us, what's important is to be wise and take advantage of it in every ways we can, even though that we aren't the inventors, we can still develop their inventions and make use of it, nevertheless the less effort we can get because we just sprouted the ideas of other and sprinkled it with our new innovations of ideas, making it a better one. But we must not forget to look back to the path that once we travelled and sees the people that once in our life we enjoyed being with.
As a conclusion, in this kind of world, what I realized is that the mindset should be wider, and we should think outside the box, to be an employer is the greatest thing to be and we should change this mindset to a new one. No being has become rich just because of graduating in college and become an employee. In being a business man, we got to think different, we should be open-minded and risking should be our hobby. We got to find way on how people are going to need us so that we can fit in with this kind of world.
Generally speaking, Steve Jobs is really a great and wise person especially in the field of business making, as first, he is really in success with his business plans and the techniques and styles he used with his plans. He really did filter all the employees whenever there's someone applying to his company.
He is a striving person, and that makes any person be successful in life. We can also say that he really is a wise man and we can see that in his moves, he thinks before he take a move, he loves his family but chooses to be apart from them just to be on the top of his career. One factor is that he is brave enough to face all the issues regarding to his doings, and his past. He didn't break up with this controversy and still stand up in front of many people without hesitant look in his face. Another factor is that he has very pleasing communication skills armed with his mouth; every word that comes out from his mouth is a glistening lyric to the audience who hears it. One last good thing about Steve Jobs is that he is straight person, he ask few questions and yet comes up with a conclusion whether a person is competitive to work on his company or not.

In his failure, he really forgot on how to look down on where he came from. He actually forgot his past and move on his new life. He didn't even claim his wife and his daughter to be his family. And what's even worst is that he give bad mouths to other people he sees especially when someone is applying to his company. He play pranks and jokes that can hurt other people, he treats people like a bug where he can play with it whenever he wants to and pinch it after he's not into it anymore. That's a damn thing he does to people, and even his very close friend, Woz, he didn't care about Woz because all he cares about his himself. Also Steve Jobs is a liar, he did lie to the public that he doesn't have an affair to his girlfriend and he didn't own the baby. He actually lied to many people and take advantage in every bit of it, he did also make used of other inventions like the "mouse" thingy, he did bought it and develop it and sell it in a higher price, well, he can actually sell it easily because of his name, name really matters and fame also does too.

And at this time, Bill gates entered his life, and that was the start of his falling down status. Bill Gates realized that the only way to defeat his enemy is to be much closer to them, as in really tight like best buds. When he realizes and discovers the motives of Bill Gates being close to him, he did actually fall after 3 months i think of that encounter, after he announces Mr. Gates as the developer of "Microsoft”.
The weakness of Steve Jobs is that he has too much of self-confidence and that was the reason of his downfall; he did bring down his own self with his carelessness. He thinks that he can get anything, anyone, in any way he wants to with his money. Too much greediness can lead to sudden death in one’s life; it can lead to a severe demise that no medicine can cure at all. While on the other part is Bill Gates, he is like a protagonist in a serial movie where antagonist are always screwing any other people’s life. At first, he got laid down by Steve Jobs, but with his unique and kind a strange ideas, he definitely beat Steve Jobs on a duel where no one is allowed to back out.

Those are the good and bad factors in life of Steve Jobs, the owner of Macintosh and Apple. [b]
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
Technopreneurship is the fusion of technology and entrepreneurship. It’s the new key for success in life and it’s the new mindset that people should consider. Technopreneur is a person who sees technology as an advantage and thinks that entrepreneurship should not stand alone, the fact that this kind of fusion can really help any kind of business much easier.
When I was still a child, my mindset is to have a business. I always dream of having an internet café or a restaurant, having this dream come true is my mission in life. I really want to have a business; there was a time that I dream of having a farm, having chickens and any other animals and even planting crops to sell. There was a time that in my grade school days when I’m studying at Holy Child of Mintal, I bought some card packs and sell it to my classmates. My mindset was that “Every Big Business starts with a small one” and with that thing, I’m still holding on to it, believing it would come true when I grow up. Everytime my relatives build a business like Internet Café or a “Karinderya”, they always fail, and I always say to myself that If I where the owner of that, I would handle it better than how they handle it. If only I would be given a chance to manage a business, but I know, before managing a business, I should first learn the basics of Business Management and all sorts of stuff. For me, I can see myself as a business man who accepts ideas from other and develop it into a new one. I think broad but still there’s this thing with me that when I’m not in a good mood, ideas won’t just come out from my mind and it was like my mind is floating, that’s the time when I hate myself as a technopreneur. I also plan to build a site where I sell stuffs through global internet, in that way I can advertise my site much easier. With internet, we can do things we want in no time, the fastest way to promote your merchandise is through advertisement and the usage of internet, and that is the time where technopreneurship comes in. Being a creative thinker would really help any business man, and I believe that I possess that thing. What’s more important is that I risk everything just to get what I want and that’s one factor a technopreneur should have in itself. Come to think of this, when you’re planning to build a business and you’re afraid that your business might not work, and you don’t have the strength to risk your idea, how will you know that your business would click or not if you don’t even try it. Bill Gates is a role model in this kind of field, he risks everything and rely it all to his own ideas, and now, he is the richest man on earth. Every idea is a great step to be a great business man; every successful business man starts with an idea. Being wise is a good factor in being successful, and we should use every idea as an advantage and rebuild it into a real business. I believe that a good technopreneur should always have friends by their side that helps give ideas, ‘coz no idea can stand alone by just being alone, it needs more ideas in order to build a better idea.
Technology really is a great help in our daily lives, it help us make chores much easier and hassle free. It is very useful in many ways; it can speed up the advertising through internet or also promotes great new ways to handle a business. Technology is not only for vanity, every newly built device gives tons of help to those people who uses it in the right way. A bad usage of technology could self explode and may lead to a delusion. Nowadays, no business runs successfully w/out having technology by their side. Being addicted to devices and developments is not bad, what we should set in our mind is that we should use it in the right way. In fact, these devices and machines can lead to a better world with new jobs and careers to offer to people. I’m aware of this and I believe that technology really is a best friend of any kind of business, I did also tried to use technology as one of my base in business, I tried computer blogging and advertise my site by the use of global internet. Global internet really is a heaven in the making for us people, there are good and bad thing about this internet but it just depends on how people would see through it. I also believe that by being a technopreneur, we should not be contented on what we have, what I mean is that even though that our business is inclined with technology, we should think new ways on how to develop out business with the help of new innovations ‘coz in the field of business, it is like a battlefield where there’s no room for weaklings and losers.
Lastly, me, as a technopreneur won’t just stand here and do nothing, I would try to make my dreams come true by starting here, by making my ideas come true, what’s good about being me as a technopreneur is that I won’t quit with my dreams in being a business man. I would use my ideas and also technology as my great key for success, I won’t take for granted the innovations and offers of technology in developing and making any business much easier than we ever think. But we should not rely all to the technology, we shouldn’t forget that the most important thing is that technology is useless without us, people, no machine can defeat a human brain and no human brain can stand alone by just being alone.

3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
Career is very important to us; our life depends on which way we are going to take. Our stability in life depends on which path, whether the right or left, the easy or difficult, the bad or the good, it all starts with a choice and the choice to be successful is in our hands. Career is the backbone of every business man, the source of income, the source of life, money can’t by everything but we can’t deny the fact that money really helps us to have a good life.
Steve Jobs is a great business man, he uses his ideas and concepts plus the unique mindset that he has. In some reason, I would prefer to take the life that I own, Steve Jobs is wise, but I’d rather prefer to build my own way in the field of business. I won’t take the same career but I would rather make my own career in life. I don’t like the way how he handles his life, well, maybe all people learns from bad things, but what I don’t want to be is to be rude and greedy, well, I can’t really blame Steve Jobs from being too greedy and too boastful, we don’t what he really wants or what is on his mind but as I’ve seen on the movie, I don’t want to mimic his bad doings. I would even not prefer to take the path of Bill Gates 'coz it's like plagarizing him in his path of life, maybe I could just live my life to what it could be and make the best out of it. Although I could say that the only thing that I would mimic about him is the way he handles every situation, especially when his on trouble or when people intrigues him. What I really like with Steve Jobs is his pleasing personality, the way he persuades people, the magic in his words that people will be fascinated to him. One factor of being successful is the way how we persuade people to get wrapped with us so that our business would click. The reality fact of this world is the fact that people and this world appreciates, adores and follows only the fittest, and the rising sun. If you want to be more successful in your life, then you will have to become a stronger being which no boulder can demolish you. You will have to become a great person and a great achiever in your life in order to lead and have a wealthy life. We can take part of this growth, even though that we're small people as for now, if we mold are skills and personality, we could still be successful in life or even be a wealthy man to someday. What we should do now is to study, and study, and study in order to pass our college degree first and then the rest would be next one to accomplish. Time is gold, but we need the right time in order to do things in its rightful manner. Patience is a virtue so live life with it and just wait for the right time that God gave us. And when it comes by to us, we should grab it immediately so that we won't regret anything at the end.
Making your own career is incredible, the fact that it is very hard to have a good career, it’s not that easy and the boulders that we you are going to face is high enough to make you fall easily. But what matters most is that perseverance to make this idea to be a reality. Everything starts with an idea; every business man starts with nothing, as I believe that nothing is impossible if you are going to take part of it seriously. I would opt to believe in God on what He is planning for my life. No matter how hard the path that I chose, He is there by my side and I know that I can surpass all of these. And even though that God will help us in our lives, especially in our careers, that fate still remains bold to us, we are the maker of our own life, the way we handle and choose things is up to us, God is only there to guide us.