TECHNO THIRD REFLECTION

Which part of the sharing you liked most and liked least? Why? @least 2000 words (2500-liked, 2500-least)

Last 24^th day of June was our second meeting on the subject Technopreneurship. The weather was warm and moist as I took my way to school that day. I felt a little bit sleepy or half awake because it was too early. When I arrived at school I waited for about 25 minutes before the class has started. The class started with once again, performance of my late classmates. After all those segue ways and stuffs, we’ve come up with the idea that whoever comes late the next meeting would treat all of us a breakfast. That idea, for me, was a better idea than that of letting us sing in front of the class. It would motivate us to come earlier and never think of getting late. The class proper has started and our facilitator gave us a seatwork. He divided us into three groups. The seatwork was all about the picture he posted in front. The first picture was a scenario of a workless father. The second was a unpleasing physical attributes of a fresh graduate student that has no hope of getting a job because the requirements should have at least a pleasing personality. Lastly, the ungrateful-to-their-wage employees. What are we going to do with all those pictures? Each group has to think of a way to help those people in the picture as if they were our parents or as if we were on their shoes. I was assigned in the second picture. Realizations? Thoughts about the picture? Putting myself on the shoes of that young lady, what would I do? What would I feel? Well. I would feel upset. I would feel less previlege and unjust. Having those criteria or requirements in the field of work made me sick. If ever I will be in that situation, I’ll do my best to convince my employer to hire me but if it will not work, I will find an alternative way to make money so that I could start up my own business and make it prosper. By the time that I am already able to hire employees, I will not do the same thing as to what I have experience before. Physical appearance would not be my basis of hiring employees but the skill itself. I hate how the world set standards on beauty. How the mundane judges physical attributes. So self-centered. I don’t like the idea. We’ve all heard the old idiom, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” And that’s totally right — judging something based on a first glance often leads to false impressions and close-mindedness. However, covers, even in the age of eBooks, are still an incredibly important part of the browsing experience, and are often the first interaction a prospective reader has with a book. A cover should be artful, interesting, and represent some essence of the book. Often, it’s the only actual image a reader will receive to spark their imagining of the world of the novel.  That’s something that I’ve heard a lot in my life, and it’s something that I try and abide by. However, not everyone shares my sentiments. The amount of times I’ve been online, or even out and about, and I’ve seen or heard someone say something nasty about someone else is ridiculous. Since when was saying stuff like “she’s really hot for a fat girl” or “she’d be pretty if she put on some weight” or even more hurtful things like “get a nose job and you’ll be pretty” considered socially acceptable? Being curvier myself, I know how hurtful it can be when someone implies you’d be prettier if you changed your weight. I’m well aware that I’m far from most people’s idea of what a “normal” girl should be, both looks-wise and body-wise, but it’s my choice to not look like everyone else and be who I am. If people took the time to get to talk to me, instead of looking at me and deciding that I’m not good enough for them, they’d learn that I’m actually a pretty decent person underneath. If they decide to judge me without getting to know me first, that’s their loss. It really annoys me and upsets me that girls are under this constant pressure from the media and even just random people who decide to give their opinion, even when it isn’t wanted. We shouldn’t be living in a world where size 6 is what everyone strives to be. Fair enough, some people are naturally skinny, but if your body is naturally a size 14/16/18, don’t feel like you have to starve yourself to look or feel “normal”, embrace yourself and try to learn to love yourself. It also gets to me when people bully others. I spent a large portion of my life being bullied, and it was hell. If you don’t like the way someone dresses/the music they listen to or anything else, just ignore them and don’t talk to them – simple. It is never okay to resort to violence. It is not okay to put someone else down to make yourself feel better, or to make yourself look tough. Words can hurt a lot more than you think, and leave a lasting impression on someone, sometimes it never goes away and eventually, the victim starts to believe the poisonous words themselves. What you think is a jokey insult can often cause more damage than you intended. I have also found that not enough schools do anything about bullying, and are reluctant to get involved. I got bullied at both primary and secondary school, and both times the teachers solutions were not helpful in the least – getting me to talk in front of the class about it (primary school) or closing me in a room with the people tormenting me and trying to get us to talk things through, believing naively that it would all get solved (secondary school), they then decided to send me to a counselor, which made me feel even worse if anything, while the bullies got off scot free! So, put yourself in someone else’s shoes before you judge them. You never know what’s going on in their head, so think before you speak – your judgments may be keeping you from making new friends, or meeting the person of your dreams. Some people seem to be negative people, just like a wall covered with spots. But we have to remember that there is always something positive and beautiful hidden inside each and every individual. The torah is always hidden inside their soul—like the precious jewels. It is up to us to reveal those hidden treasures within others, and find the positive that lies within. Don’t judge a house by its ugly spots; there may be treasures buried underneath. Don’t judge a man by his negative traits; find the positive traits that are buried deep inside. How physical transformations transform more than the physical has long been of interest to me.  I was raised to “never judge a book by its cover.”  While on the surface this saying makes a lot of sense, as I got older, I realized that it was one more sophism of the schoolyard, something our parents tell us so that we don’t ostracize a weird-looking classmate.  There’s value to that saying in the cruel culture of kids, but I don’t find it useful to function under that mantra as an adult.  I think that, in large part, who we are, is based on how other people treat us.  And how other people treat us is, at least to begin with, based on visual cues which we give them, including (but not limited to) how we dress.  Beyond this socially derived reasoning, there is a more internal element.  When my body is healthy, it’s easier for the rest of me to follow suit.  Furthermore, physical changes I have undergone have profoundly affected not only my appearance and well being but also my whole person.  With regards to the first picture, It reminds me to never give up in life even it kneels you down. What makes someone never give up? Is it their determination, their perseverance or a strong belief of themselves? It’s really all of the above. Are you missing any? What can you do to find it/them? Ever since I was a little girl, my father told me I could do anything I put my mind to. He told me that I had to believe in myself and to never, never, never give up. This saying goes a LONG way! I have persevered throughout my life on many different levels. I started out as an artist, wanting to have my first gallery show. I did what it took to make that happen. I went to school for it, I painted until I ran out of supplies and I created from my heart. As I understand the word “learning”, it is what we’ve got towards a certain thing that gives us new knowledge, understanding, realizations and ideas that we can use as a weapon as we journey our life. We, young men and women, have a lot of hopes, dreams and ideals. At different moments during the day, we easily find ourselves thinking about the future, setting up our own actions, and hoping for the best. Especially now that we are in College, we are anxious about what we shall do after graduation. We make our plan, keep our fingers crossed, and hope that things will turn out well. Whenever we become aware of events unfolding before us, we cannot but stop, think, and hope. Some events turn out wrong, and we wish that similar ones will no longer happen in the future. Others go right. We feel happy and look ahead to even better and more wonderful things. We enjoy spending time with our friends, thinking about the years that lie ahead of us. We talk about our plans and dreams. Sometimes, our parents join us, and share with us their own plans and dreams for themselves and for us .Many parents, who in their younger years had no opportunities to study, are now able to send their children to good schools, all the way to college. Some are more fortunate than others; they get good breaks in business and succeed in enriching themselves through their travels and studies abroad. As we all know, we are happy to succeed in accomplishing something. Our parents and even our teachers share in our joy. On the other hand, we feel frustrated when we fail to achieve what we wanted to do. Fortunately, many of us are resilient enough to bounce back into the game of life, and use these moments of failure as stepping stones to even greater successes. Well, my vision and goal in life is just simple as myself. Though I learned to our last meeting in the subject IT Elective that once we set our goals, we should grab the opportunity to dream big. I know dreaming big is good but for me I think I should take it as a step by step process. Once I achieved one of my goals, this is the time that I should go higher and proceed to the next one. I think this is better and a wise action for myself. I believe that in order for me not to be dismayed once I fail, I should not dream so big as if I am hallucinating. As I foresee my life, I would like to see that someday I can finish my studies and wear a toga on the day of graduation. I would like to be a successful person and have a stable job after graduation. I picture out myself working in a company in good harmony with my co-workers. I see myself receiving my own salary as a product of my effort, sweat and endeavors. As a good son, I will really extend my help to my parents. I will help them in return to their goodness and for sending me to school. That would be the time that the situation is reverse, I am now the one supplying their needs considering that they became oldie. I see myself also having a business for other source of income. I would like also to see myself extending my help not only to my parents but also to others as long as I can afford it. If possible, I will engage myself into a charity work showing that I am very thankful for the blessings and graces I have. And lastly, I would like to see that someday I can give happiness to my parents and to others and become successful in a lot of ways. Well of course, for it not to be just an illusion and senseless, I should set up my goal and purpose in life. My goal is to strive hard for success and to make a better future for myself and for my parents. My goal is to help and to make sure that every vision I dream will be granted.
Above all things, I cannot have those dreams if I don’t have trust in God and to myself. I cannot have those things if I don’t strive hard and become eager to achieve it. I should have to work and work for it. Our lives are too precious to waste or to take for granted. I should give my best shot!

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe

It’s darkest before the dawn. This thought has helped me to hold on when things have felt very difficult and I felt like giving up and going home. Because I have found it to be true. When things seemed to be at the lowest point with my blog and business, with my dating life or with my motivation in life in general something always happened. Probably quite often because being at that low point forced me to change something in how I did things. But maybe also because life seems to have some kind of balance if I just keep going. If I just keep taking action instead of giving up and doing nothing then something good always happens. Seeing this repeat itself strengthened my belief in taking action and to keep going even on rough days or weeks. And it brings some comfort even when things look pretty dark.Tap into realistic expectations. This one has also been very important. Tap into realistic expectations not by listening to advertising that promises you quick results. Not by listening to the perfectionism - from the people around you or yourself - that allows no mistakes or failures. Tap into it by listening to the people who have already gone where you want to go. Listen to the people who know what works and how you will stumble and fail along the way and can tell you how long your journey may take. You’ll probably not get an exact blueprint. But the things people can tell you in person or via books and blogs can be a great guidance. Remind yourself why you are doing this. It’s easy to lose the big picture in the busy everyday life. But if you feel like giving up then try reconnecting with why you are doing what you are doing. Write it down. Maybe it is to support and keep your family safe. Maybe it is to live healthier and longer. Or you may do it to see the world and explore new things. Then, whenever you feel like giving up pull out that piece of paper with your most powerful why(s). It often helps. Reconnect with the basics or change the path slightly. When I have run into a plateau or a longer rough patch these two things have been helpful:

Simplify and reconnect with the basics. It is easy to become overwhelmed by all the information out there about any change you can make in life. That can lead to confusion and trying to do too many things at once.
In those situations it has been helpful for me to simplify. To just focus on a few or one of the things I have learned are the basic fundamentals in this area of life. To improve my social skills those things were for example to keep a positive attitude and to assume rapport.

Learn more and course correct. Reconnecting with the basics often works well. But sometimes it has been helpful to change my course slightly instead. To examine how I do things, what results they bring in and to compare it to how people who have gone before me have done things.
To be honest with myself and admit that maybe one or two things or small parts of that I am doing are not working so well. And to replace those things for a while – based on what others have done in the past – and see if that works better. Even if it means that I have to get out of my comfort zone. Just for today! By telling myself that I only have to do it today I release the mental burden of the past times I did it and future times when I will do it. And so the task becomes much lighter and the inner resistance melts away. Plus, it also reminds me that the period that I am investing in changing a habit is not the rest of my life. After so many days or so the habit will mostly be automatic so it is not something I have to do on willpower for the next few years or decades. And guess what, when tomorrow comes I’ll probably have a good day again with less resistance and I will most likely feel like doing the task again. Quit and try something else.Sometimes it is not time to give up. But it may be time to quit what you are doing and to try something else. If you feel like giving up or you are bored a lot, if you feel no real passion or excitement or curiosity about a change or your current path then ask yourself the two questions below. Because then it may be time to quit doing this and to spend your time and energy on something you truly want to do. Am doing this because I truly want it? Or am I doing it because someone told me to or because so many people around me seem to have done it or are working on it? What you want isn’t easy to know before you get started though. You may need to try different paths before you find one that fits you. And just because everyone around you seems to love jogging doesn’t mean that you have to love it or that you have to give up on the habit of regular exercise. Try walking, biking, playing badminton or table tennis instead. Try a new way of doing what you want and see if it is a better fit and more enjoyable for you. Ever since my first memory came to existence till two days before I'll be nine, I have always believed in permanence. That everything will be always fine and everyone will be always there. But then, I just woke up and realized that life is not everlasting. That while we may be able to finish our life whenever we want to, we have no option to live forever. Life ain’t fantasy. We are not immortal. Life is a candle which starts the moment it’s lit, and ends the moment everything has melted, nothing more to be consumed by the once kindling tongue of flames... But not all the time. Not all the time life is as generous as that. Like a cute little candle in a birthday cake, even the gentlest breeze could make its fire DIE--not even having a chance to burn till it just cannot anymore. Life is unfair. Life is harsh. But hey, life is like that to everyone! That’s what makes it fair--it is fair. So while I have my flame on, I will make it last. I will make it meaningful. I will be a light. I will be someone's bright light in pitch darkness. Sometimes, we hurt people even if we do not intend to. Sometimes, we are left with options that will hurt them anyway. And the crazy thing about pain is it demands to be felt. And people tend to make permanent decisions and big words over temporary feelings and unassessed pain. I would like to believe that there is no sane human who finds joy over suffering of others. Maybe hurting other people and playing with their feelings is just their unconscious way of escaping their personal reality? After all, we can never fully understand a person unless we consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin, and walk around in it. Maybe everything is not about anyone experiencing joy. Here’s what I liked in the discussion.  “Go to school, get good grades, create and own a company."Use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology. These statements offer an alternative mindset. We can formally call it the technopreneurship mindset. Technopreneurship is entrepreneurship in the field of high technology. It is the healthy interplay of technology ideas, technology skills, management skills and the entrepreneurial mindset. It starts with an idea, which when pursued, has the capacity to be transformed into a viable technology-based enterprise. The cultivation and nurturing of this alternative mindset can start in schools. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum can prepare students to be budding technopreneurs. The alternative mindset in what we call the technopreneurship mindset it is a mindset that a few graduates followed. A mindset, in which we went to school, gets good grades and after that creates and owns a company. For you to be able to create a company you just have to use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology. In this way we will be able to contribute and get involved for the technological development of the Davao City. As we all know this mindset talks about technopreneurship, technopreneurship is an entrepreneurship in the field of high technology. This kind of mindset leads to the following benefits. Firstly, our graduates will remain in Davao to pursue their technology based business plans as their start-up in technology business incubators. The venture capitalists will invest in their high technology products, this is a great help especially when you don’t have enough money for the investment. The start-ups mature into stable IT enterprises and eventually locate in IT parks and buildings. Right now some IT incubators have been created that was started by the Brokenshire College. In this project it helps the graduated students to start developing their business plan and make it come true. They are free to use the computers for one year but they have to make sure that they will be able to finish the said project. You will be able to avail if your business plan is acceptable for them. If lots of IT parks and buildings will be created there will be lot of investors that will be attracted. So meaning the IT industry will be growing in progress. The graduates now will decide to build their careers and families in Davao, to decide to stay in our place. Those graduates who left Davao will return and decide to take a root in here. In result Davao City will become a home of highly competent and efficient IT professionals. The City will become prosperous just like Cebu and Manila. There will be lot of job creation. This means that lot of unemployed where be able to get a job.  We discussed about the SEED model. S – Self Mastery, E – Environment Mastery, E – Enterprise Mastery, D – Development of Business Plan. We had learned that one can develop self – mastery first is to know yourself, because self – mastery brings passion. I must know myself in order for me to know what I want in life. When I heard about self-mastery, I quickly asked myself, “Do I really know you Sang?” “Who are you by the way?”. I am the kind of person who loves to write. Yes, I am a writer wanna-be. To me, writing is hard work.  Painful sometimes. I used words to write what I didn’t yet have the courage to say in my own voice. I used words to mask opinions I was still too scared to own (I do reflections tho). I often think about writing. I wonder why I do it. I’m a writer-wanna be, just so you know. I used to wish of having hologram type of journal so that wherever I go, I can write, I can document a story, I can engrave an epistle of history. I’m one of those people that has started a hundreds of journals, but never been able to maintain them. I’m one of those people that loses them or dog ears them or rips out ideas and scribbles in the corners and has a thousand different handwriting styles that it looks like a thousand different people have scribbled their disjointed ideas all over the blue lined pages… I reinvented myself so often in my teens and early twenties (well I’m already 22) that old journals always felt like they were no longer me. So I destroyed them or put them away or forgot to write in them and quickly they became strange portraits of old versions of myself that existed in a fleeting moment. One thing that I would like to add up is. The people around me tend to influence my personality. If I'm around grouchy, grumpy people, I notice that I will turn into a grouchy, grumpy person. If I'm around happy people, I tend to be much better and outgoing. Music is a big thing in my life - it's a must have. I love how some of it can explain exactly how life is. My cats influence my life as well. Um... passionate is hopefully the first thing.  Lover of wisdom.  Wanna love other people, and have them love me back.  Hopefully behave as if "my" life is none of my business.  Despite my checkered past, am a very soft person.  Stubborn.  Sometimes do with a bulldozer what might've been done with a garden spade.  My integrity is both blessing and curse.  Music is everywhere in my life.  Spend so much time being a "tool of the universe", trying to make myself a hero, that I probably spend a little less time being one.  I’m oft the local shaman (to steal from one of my heroes, Captain America).  Try to bring sweetness, humor, wisdom, service, softness, fun, new or progressive things into others' lives and circumstances.  Thinking lately that I oughtta be more wary of my own capacity for solipsism. I see myself as an “ambivert” person. I can be introvert and i can also be extrovert depending on the situation I am into. Through this kind of personality, I am able to showcase a good and effective relationship towards others. But this doesn’t mean that I do have all what it takes to have a healthy personality. Sometimes I find myself in the pit of distraction due to anxiety. Yes, I do have a high risk of anxiety. I’m so anxious of the things that might hinder my happiness. I anticipate too much. There's arguably more, but another of my character defects is that I've already decided for most people that they're not going to read this anyway.  Apologies in advance. That’s how I see myself when it comes to passion. It may be very far out to connect when it comes to technopreneurship but for me to give my best I should know my potential. 

TECHNO FOURTH MEETING

The fourth meeting in our subject Technopreneurship last July 8, 2014 was kinda strange because there were only few late comers for that day due to the new policy that we and our facilitator agreed upon. The class started with showing us pictures that were related for the next topic of the day. The first picture was a woman cooking, followed by a man who was making hut and another man that repairs a laptop. Our facilitator asked us about our perception with the pictures relating it to our subject Technopreneurship. My point of view about those pictures was “That was then, this is now.” The difference today, and going forward, is that technology is rapidly moving to a much more agile adoption, development, operating and use model. After those segueways we vented out to the lesson proper which was about Technopreneurship Ecosystem. In this area, many of the tasks, if not all, have pre-requisites (i.e. money, materials, personnel, etc.). it is similarly for technopreneurial venture to start, grow and succeed, it must also have the required resources, environment and support. Its learning objectives are at the end of this session/lecture, the students should be able to: enumerate the different actors/players for the technology ventures to prosper and define the roles of the different actors/players in techno ventures. Succesful technopreneurship = H-E-L-F. Yes it was spelled as HELF and not HELP instead. Techno Ventures has HUMAN RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT LAWS & POLICIES and FINANCIAL RESOURCES.Human resources components are: Research who is the thinker, idea generator and innovator. Developer who is the implementor, technical people. Scanner and marketing people and Financer.  Environment component are: Science parks and incubation centers, Academic Institutions and R & D centers, Internet access and Communication, Communication and other Support Services, Geographic accessibility and Venture Mentoring Services/Support. Incubation is the programmes provide incubation services to assist technology start-ups in their vulnerable stages, enabling them to grow and flourish. It supports office space and facilities, technical and management assistance, promotion and development assistance, business support and financial aid package.  Laws and Policies, it is the Intellectual Property Rights Office, Technology Licensing Office – facilities commercialization of Inventions and Legal Services. Financial Component is the investor, Business Sector, Funding Agencies and Financial Services (i.e. Accounting). Now I am much pretty sure what we have right now are the good and excellent ideas in building and initiating a techno business. Know I can propose to you the nature of my techno business where I consider from the mere facts of what I love, the things that I am best at and I irritants with. I really liked the things that I learned and still learning with this subject. Morally upright with virtues, technically open-minded to technological complication, we should be able to reach beyond what we expect to obtain. As a technopreneur there are several factors that should be consider on how somebody like me will be individually equipped by the matter around technopreneurship. Without much further do, there is what we called “Personality Traits” to be talk about. How an individual characteristic does may affect the relationship to neither other nor others might be affected on what personal characteristics we have? How this thing does is being connected to technopreneurship? The next thing that we did was to take up the personality traits. Yes! We have to define it first. The dictionary defines “personality” as: [a]. Habitual patterns and qualities of behavior of any individual as expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes; distinctive individual qualities of a person, considered collectively. [b]. The complex of qualities and characteristics seen as being distinctive to a group, nation, place, etc. [c]. The sum of such qualities seen as being capable of making, or likely to make, a favorable impression on other people.
[d]. Informal personal attractiveness; engaging manner or qualities. Thus, personality is the totality of somebody’s attitude, interest, emotional responses, behavioral patterns, social roles and other individual traits that endure over long periods of time. Traits are defined as "a distinguishing or determining quality or characteristic, as of personality." In other words, this means that personality traits are the distinguishing characteristics that make you "you." Every person has a unique identity. In which we can be able to determine the difference of each person. There are some reasons on how do a certain traits influenced and engaged someone. It maybe either by the type of family he/she came from or maybe the kind of environment he/she lived. Personality traits are the unique set of characteristics and qualities that only you possess. According to some resources, although each person has hundreds, if not thousands, of different habit and traits that make up their personality, psychologists have tried to provide a bit of guidance for people to define personality traits and to determine the most important traits. Taking the personality traits tests was quite exciting but at the same time, quite terrifying. I was very excited to know and to find out the results on every test that I took, but also, as I was taking those test, I was quite reluctant that my results would disappoint me. I would like also to share how reflecting can help oneself on improving his personality. I have been reflecting since I was in elementary and I'm sure you are too. But it is only now that I have been through deep and hard reflections. Going back to our exam, which is the test that tests us on our capability as a technopreneur. As I was taking the test, I quickly noticed how the choices was clearly divided. A choice points as money being the ends of the business and the other choice pointing to relational aspect in the business. I already deduced at that point that this has something to do with Entrepreneurship. My score was 43. It translates into somewhat technopreneur. Iwas quite happy when I found my score, but then everyone in the class got the same result as me, somewhat technopreneur , then it wasn’t so special anymore. Anyways, My answers in the test really reflects what would I do when I become a technopreneur someday. Most of the choices I made was about creating good ambience in the relationship in the business. For me, when an entrepreneur goes business, he or she doesn’t just have to deal on how to make profit. I strongly believe that a business must have a good relationship between the employer and employees as well as employees to themselves. In my belief, if this fails, the business will crumble and fail as a profiting business.  I was labeled as a “somewhat technopreneur. During the said test, I never really expected that I would be able to belong in that range, but somehow I had a little hope that there is a little technopreneurial skills in me. And I do really have because I belong to the range of somewhat technopreneur. Maybe just a very tiny piece of skill, because I got the passing in that range. Maybe there are qualities that I really don’t have in order to become a good technopreneur and changing my attitude towards achieving it, takes time. It’s a process that I could also learn from this subject as well as to our teacher.

THREE IDIOTS

“ALL IZ WELL!” I uttered to myself after watching the movie entitled “The 3 Idiots”. Long before not watching the movie, I thought that it was just a sappy, grumpy, full of sing and dance Indian movie based on its title, but I was wrong with my perception. Thinking of Indian movies, I often associate it with kind of soap operas, entailing lots of dancing and singing because as I noticed, Indian movies often bring audiences with stories relating to love, religion, action and in reality. Yes, I do watch Indian films even if I find it hard to understand it. Anyways, subtitle saves me all the time. A recapped or a snippet of the movie: The plot started when Fahran, a wildlife photographer, while on board, received a phone call from one of his old friends at university about the information of his best friend, Rancho, who has not been in touch with them since they graduated from university. On their trace to Rancho, all their thoughts flashed back to their times, when Rancho, Raju and Farhan were together at Imperial College of Engineering, one of the most prestigious schools of India. Each one with different family background, different characteristics contibutes to the colourful picture of Indian college. (cr: moviesummary.com) Lessons with regards to the characteristics of each actors in the movie : Fahran - His dream was to be a wildlife photographer, unfortunately, since he was born, his fate has been determined by his parents to be an engineer, which is deemed to bring pride to his family. Farhan had no choice but abandon his passion for photography, choosing engineering according to his parents’ desire. Finally, with the help of Rancho, Farhan realized where his passion lay, daring to chase his dream as a wildlife photographer. Though a job as wildlife photographer could not bring him as much money as a career in engineering, Fahran has chances to live out his dream, capturing the beautiful moments life brought by. The lesson that I have learned from his story was to “Follow your heart and passion.” If you love what you’re doing, so be it. Do. Do it. Do it right. Turning passion into profession, this maybe the best way to label my lesson learned for Fahran’s character. Raju – He was born to deprivated family. His father was paralysed, leading to huge consumption of money for medications. His sister cannot get married because they are too poor to offer a dowry to the man’s family. Raju, therefore, took the responsibilities of helping his family getting out of poverty. This pressure, as described as lots of rings worn on his fingers, caused him to live in fear. He was always afraid of future, feeling himself under pressure for striving for excellence in every exam at college. “Fear no more and never let yourself to be a slave of it.” This prevents someone from living at its best in the present. Anticipating of failure can make someone helpless and afraid to go out of shell. Life is too beautiful to be feared of. Rancho - Every time he appeared, he often overwhelmed other people as well as the audiences with mind-blowing stories. As described in the song at the beginning of the film, he was like a strange wind, blowing the stagnant atmosphere of college. He first appeared in the film when every freshman was bullied by the seniors with such a weird “ritual”. Just by a simple application of basic Physics, he had taught the senior a valuable lesson. He asked questions at right places at right times, simplifying complicated concepts mentioned in the text books, coming up with bright ideas, which are not dared to be thought by other students. “Strive for excellence. Success will follow you.” It’s so holistic. It only proves how passion can make someone excel from what he’s doing. Living out with passion and determination can make a person successful. Rancho, one of the main characters in the movie, is undeniably a great person, a great friend, a great leader and a great student. Though he did nasty things, he still done it for a good purpose. He never thought of his own sake. He was never selfish. He possesses a lot of qualities of an effective leader. Because of his principles in life, he was able to set the lives of the people around him. The part of the movie that really amazed me is the moment wherein they have to perform a vacuum delivery. Rancho really did well in making the students coordinate and make the delivery successful. That was really stunning This just crossed my mind, if all people will be like Rancho, I guess the whole world will be better but I know it will be hard because ‘Chatur’ and ‘Virus’ exist in real world. They represent the challenges all people are facing every day. They also represent those people who will do everything just to let you down. Competition is very usual in every field of life but everyone can be Rancho. We should just have a concrete vision enclosed with competency and a strong desire of reaching every goal you have set. “Make your passion your profession” is one the quote from the movie that really marked on my mind. You can’t accomplish anything if you can’t put your heart on your work. You should conquer fear to be able to achieve your dreams. This movie helped a lot in making me understand the qualities and characteristic of a good leader. This also inspires me to be a better student. Both Farhan, Raju, and Rancho brought me with their own meaningful lessons. The movie makes me think much about my study. I found myself existing in almost every character of the film. I found myself in Rancho, in his passion for study. I found myself in Raju, in his fear for future. I found myself in Fahran, in his being obedient to his parents. With regards to the whole lesson learned in the movie, I would like to hit the right nail this time. Giving an effortful attemp to attain success against excellency, is what parents and school system do. It demands to have high grades, direct the students to focus on the things that let them to get high grades rather than learn. Creative ideas become risky because 1 point difference gets a different. Unfortunately this behavior becomes so ingrained in students that when they face real life they are afraid to take risks, and miss opportunities to do their personal best. Wondering later why an average guy in school goes on to become more successful and overtapped them someday. The root cause of the problem nowadays with the students, the mundane and the whole human being are the system and the behavior of most people. It follows the norms of the world. I, myself, also engage with that kind of mentality. It’s time for me now to go out my shell and live life to the extent. Explore the world, push myself to the limit. Do the things that makes me perfectly happy even if there’s no assurance of being successful. “Oh wells are far better that what ifs.” I also realized about the things I love, the things I am best at and the things that irritate me the most. It was one of the activities we did for us to determine things regarding our likes and dislikes for use to lead into a better idea of what business we must propose. This could help us on creating a good idea because as what I have mentioned above being able to seek what you love can help you go on and break through any barrier that would possibly come along the way to your success. Lastly, as an inspiration from what I have learned. I can say that I must stay hungry. I must stay foolish. Do my best and God will do the rest. “All is Well” were always mentioned on the film. It implies not to lose hope in every situation you will encounter and have a courage to survive in any circumstances that you may encounter as you go along to your journey and to succeed. Be optimistic and always have faith in yourself and to God. Just live every moment to the fullest as if today is your last day. There are many things to learn from this film, I found love for friends. You can do anything for your friends but nowadays this type of friendship is lacking the most. And about education nowadays every people are in a rat race. Every parents have dream about the profession of the ward, they have to be doctors or engineers whether they like it or but it is not possible for every ward to be doctors or engineers. They may have liking for other things but some parents does not understand this at all. Those lessons makes me whole as a student and inspired me to pursue my studies. Life is just a matter of choice just think twice and be wise. I have witnessed from the movie that in any circumstances, true friends are always there to support and cheer us up. They make somehow our life light. I have watched it several times and it always inspires me to run the race of life with joy, love and passion. I will always watched this movie even if I'm old and share it to others what I have learned for. I am not good in understanding especially in this kind of movie and it takes two times of watching this film. But surely it would stick unto my mind what I have learned for because it's extremely awesome especially on the characters and quotable lines they spoke on the said movie. We should learn to love our self and our passion to become successful in life.

THE PIRATES OF THE SILICON VALLEY

The Pirates of the Silicon Valley, brief summary:

This movie showed the progression of the computer since the 1970’s. It also shows the competition between IBM. Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. The movie gives a real life perspective of the struggles they faced in their personal lives and the struggles they went through within their companies. Jobs started constructing computers with his partner, Wozniak, in a small garage, while Gates began building computer software in a motel warehouse. Jobs became more successful than Gates in the beginning when he created the Apple Company and was making new computers almost every year. Although Steve Jobs had great marketing skills, he treated his employees horrible. They worked extremely long hours and when he got mad, he would take it out on them. Gates was a lot more laid back with his employees. Throughout the movie Gates and Jobs tried their hardest to make their companies better than the others. Apple was more focused on creating the computers themselves and Microsoft was eager to design the actual software and hard drives that were being put into the computers. At one point in the movie Bill Gates saw what Jobs’ was doing and wanted to make his prototype his own. He convinced Steve Jobs to let him work for Apple only later to find out that Gates stole the computer information and redesigned it to create his own computer and sell it to other marketers. After stealing Job’s ideas, Bill Gates became one of the richest men in the world. At one point in the career of Apple, Steve Jobs was fired only to return a few years later with an attitude adjustment. In the end, both companies became very successful but neither were able to gain each others full trust and merge into one large company.

The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a flick about the rivalry between Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computers, and Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft. The movie draws out the historical development of these two large computer companies, from the time when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs’ college days to 1985, in moving pictures using old cinematography. It is an enlightening depiction of the evolution of a true phenomenon, the age of personal computers. The movie also emphasized the negative qualities of the two gentlemen that are now having big names worldwide. Despite of the unenthusiastic attitude of Steve Jobs to his team and co-founders, he still managed to uplift and give a renowned recognition of the Apple Company. On the other hand, Bill Gates also tried to put everyone down who are in the same business even though Microsoft at first was an underdog. Still, he survived and also made Microsoft as a threatening counterpart to Apple. Moreover, the movie highlighted on how Apple grabbed the idea of the Graphic User Interface from Xerox, how Microsoft purchased the first Disk Operating System from an underground programmer, and how Bill Gates developed Windows behind Steve Jobs’ back. For these reasons, the revolutionaries were depicted by the title movie itself as the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Through this, they become the two richest men in the world. What was really amazing about the film was that the two contenders actually worked together until Steve Jobs realized that Bill Gates developed Windows using the software that Apple had programmed for their computers.

I was wrong with my assumptions with the movie. The movie was all about hard work I think, and not to let money and power go to your head. Bill Gates worked hard and Steve Jobs worked hard. But when Apple became something, Steve Jobs let it went to his head. Eventually he was fired before he learned his lesson. To end this overview of the movie, even though it didn’t turn out to be the way I expected it to be, the movie was great. It is inspiring and informative in some weird way. Informative in a way that I can relate to the terminologies, and I’m also familiar with the scenarios of the movie. I liked this movie a lot because it was very informative but also very interesting. It was inspirational to see two different companies that started out as nothing become something so big. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were incredibly intelligent people who had their own strengths and weaknesses. Though they were great marketers, I don’t think I would be able to work for either of them. Steve Jobs treated his employees so cruelly while Bill Gates was so brilliant he might be hard to keep up with. Steve Jobs took more risks and developed things more quickly while Bill Gates took his time and in the long run came out ahead. I think they should make a sequel to this movie and show how much farther computers have come today. I was really surprised by this movie. If that is how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates really were, I would have never have imagined. I think of those two very successful people as being more professional than that, their actions they displayed in the movie just seemed ruthless. They did whatever they could to be ahead. Their motto was “good artists copies, great artists steal.” This movie really gave me insight to who the real revolutionaries were, not the people that got credit for it. Like I never knew Xerox came up with the mouse and graphic interface. Steve Jobs stole it from them, and then Bill Gates stole it from Steve. For how awkward this movie made Bill Gates seem, I am really surprised he was so able to talk people into doing things and believing him. This movie made the other computer companies seem really stupid. Like when the one executive said what would ordinary people do with computers? Or when IBM said the profits are in the computers themselves, not the operating systems. If they only knew then what they know now. 

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

Who is Steve Jobs anyway? Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption. He was taken in by a working class couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View, California. 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.

Who is Bill Gates? Bill Gates was born on 1955 in Seattle, Washington to a prominent family. During prep school, he met Paul Allen, who would become his partner and co-founder at Microsoft. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard College where he met Steve Ballmer, who would also become his future business partner at Microsoft. In 1975, Gates and Allen began operating under the name of Micro-Soft while working on a software for the MITS Altair 8800. The company was officially registered the next year and Gates never graduated from Harvard. Perhaps the defining moment of Microsoft and Gates' history was his approach in 1980 to IBM to offer them an operating system for their upcoming IBM PC. Gates made a series of risky yet crucial decisions, like offering them someone else's software, and asking to retain the license over the software, which wasn't customary at the time. Both decisions proved to be accurate as DOS became one of the most important operating systems of the time, and software licenses became the prevalent form of software distribution, turning Microsoft into a key player in the IT industry. But Microsoft's biggest claim to fame came years later with the release of the Windows software. Despite being largely similar to the Apple operating system, Windows availability to different computer manufacturers turned the software into the most used operating system in the world and Microsoft into the largest computer software company, while making Gates one of the wealthiest persons in the world.. Despite Gates' success and the popularity of Microsoft, he has been often criticized by his business practices, which have been labeled as monopolistic and non-creative. Still, Windows continues to thrive and Gates has topped the Forbes list of wealthiest men in the world for years and years. Since 2008, Gates stepped down from his full-time job at Microsoft and dedicates most of his time now to philanthropic ventures.

Back on track to the question, for me, these are the factors for Steve Jobs’ success: 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”. Passion. Steve Jobs(2005) once said that “You’ve got to find what you love.” It wasn’t only for money that he strived for his business to progress, but also it was really his passion. He doesn’t do those things because he is pressured to do it, but it was different to a passionate man. He does those things because he loved it. He worked passionately and he didn’t notice that his business was growing. His passion for work was one big factor for his success. 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. Knowledge. To start a small-scale business, it is a prerequisite that a person must know the nature and concerns of the business. The person must be knowledgeable in the field that the business is in; in Steve Jobs case, technology and programming (although most of the work was done by his friend and business partner Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs was also well-acquainted with electronics and programming). If a person who starts a business is knowledgeable, and he/she becomes the manger, he/she will not be fooled if one of the employees is making a bogus business. In this way, the person can also impart his knowledge to his/her employees, and in turn it will make the business progressive, like what happened to Steve Jobs’ Macintosh and the Apple Series. Fifth 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.
Sixth 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. Perseverance. It is also evident that, throughout Steve Jobs’ journey to success, he had the quality of being perseverant. He burnt almost a dozen or even a hundred midnight candles just to make business plans and also speeches on how to persuade his clients. For me, this is an important factor that drove Steve Jobs to his success.

Seventh 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

Connections and Friends. Given the situation that he had met the only ace among his deck of cards which is Steve Wozniak, he had many connections to many people that are of the same involvement in the field of technology. And the connection grew and grew as his business expanded – it’s like a complicated computer network where big people in businesses are interconnected. He was benefited from these alliances because they shared common goal and wealth. He hired many influential people in his company, even John Sculley who was the manager for the Pepsi-Cola company before entering Apple. He used these connections to break in to what it seemed to be closed doors, and eventually these doors opened for him to expand his business more. A Good Speaker. In nature, Steve Jobs is charismatic. Every word he says seemed to be believable. He was very persuasive that his clients and customers where convinced immediately before he knows it. He was very good in sales talk, complementing to Steve Wozniak who’s got the brains but not the convincing powers. Before Steve Wozniak even finished the computer, it was already considered sold. Thanks to Steve Jobs. Smart and Clever. He was very smart enough to fool his competitors in business. At first there were many companies that had edge in terms of the product. But before it will outsell his product, all he had to do was to take the initiative of persuading the owners to sell the product and then copy the feature that will make Steve Jobs’ computer on the edge of technology that has never been present before. He convinced Xerox to sell their product to him, but his black propaganda was to steal the “mouse technology”. In some other sense, it was a form of cheating; an indirect cheating, that is. But in the world of business, it is a common thing; to outsmart your competitors is the best way if you want bigger profit for the company. Setting Bigger Goals. He didn’t stop at having small business in an old car garage; he wanted more. He was an ambitious man that wanted to gain more. Even though he didn’t succeed in overtaking the giant IBM, he is now a very successful technopreneur and businessman in his own accord. 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.

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 How do you see yourself as a technopreneur? 

Before sinking in to answer the question, let me first define what technopreneurship and a technopreneur is. 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?

I am also currently working at the Department of Social Welfare and Development as an encoder on Social Pension and putting up into practice my skills in computer literacy. I find it challenging since this is my first time to work on government agency. This kind of job is a bit hard since I’m still attending class in the day and working 8 hours in the night. Time management is really my key for me to be able to do my responsibilities in work and in school. But, while thinking of these things, there is one problem: I am not much of a risk-taker type of a person myself. I was always afraid to take the risks ad new opportunities. I always think of the negative consequences. But, as a popular saying goes, “A person who is always afraid to try new things will never achieve greater things than what he has have now.” So, I must adhere to this, and must not concentrate on the negative consequences, but of the positive ones. So, I can see myself, as of now, as a passionate technopreneur. Through this I will be able to meet and work with the people that are of the same interests as I am. That would be cool! And because we love what we do, we can explore new worlds and discover new horizons that will come to us unexpectedly. Not only that, I am the boss of my own right too! I will be able to customize my business and run it the way I wanted it to be. And also through this I can finally find myself, and I will be able to enhance my skills in the field of technopreneurship. I can also help people by making them work for me, and as a result, there will be also less unemployed and underemployed. And if there are less unemployed and underemployed, I can help contributing to the growth rate of job creation in my city. In my nation. This will result to more productivity for the Philippines. For a better life and future. So I can also say that I can see myself as a helpful and productive technopreneur. But all this will not be possible without the help of God. But I know he will make me a good technopreneur. I should believe in myself. Think of positivity, out of the box. I know that He will guide me in my path to success and will lead me. Unto Him I commend my trust and faith.

 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. After so much deliberation with myself, I think my answer to this question would be a -No. When we say career, it pertains to the individual’s progress in life.It describes an individuals' journey through learning, work and other aspects of life. There are a number of ways to define a career and the term is used in a variety of ways. It is a course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". In this definition career is understood to relate to a range of aspects of an individual's life, learning and work. Career is also frequently understood to relate to the working aspects of an individuals life e.g. as in career woman. A third way in which the term career is used to describe an occupation or a profession that usually involves special training or formal education, and is considered to be a person’s lifework. In this case "a career" is seen as a sequence of related jobs usually pursued within a single industry or sector e.g. "a career in law" or "a career in the building trade". I thought the film “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” very interesting. By the end of the film I found myself questioning the integrity of mankind, and whether or not pure innovation can exist in a corporate setting. At the beginning of the film Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were just nerdy guys who worked hard at something which they were passionate about, but somewhere along the line money and power got in the way. They both became overwhelmed with this vision of the personal computer and enacted an almost “space race” like competition to be the first to corner the market. Initially Steve Jobs was preoccupied with keeping his operations fun and anti-suit, but when Apple began to take off he became drunk with power and enamored with his own philosophy. He quickly lost his initial purist vision. I was especially shocked by his angry behavior. Every time something did not go his way he lashed out irrationally at innocent people. He managed to alienate those closest to him with his tirades. By the time it came to toast him at his party no one wanted to say a kind word about him. He went from being this fun loving guy who enjoyed spending time with his friends to a dictator. I think what disappointed me most about him was his inability to take responsibility for his actions. If something went awry it could not possibly be his fault and he would take it out on someone else. This weakness also extending into his personal life, after taking a paternity test he still refused to acknowledge his daughter or pay child support. Naming a computer after her was in no capacity being a father or taking responsibility. However, Steve Jobs was not the only person in the film who disappointed me. I was also surprised at how cut throat and manipulative Bill Gates became over the course of the movie. Before he made it big in the computer industry he did not have the guts to speak to a woman, or the business sense to dress up and prepare for clients. As his wardrobe improved and confidence grew his ethics disintegrated. He had no qualms about tricking Steve Jobs into thinking they were “family” and all on the same team. I think the most profound statement in the movie that really sums up how far these men strayed from their original visions is summed up when Jobs confronts Gates for stealing his software. Jobs tells Gates that his software is better, and Gates realizes that Apple does indeed have a better system but simply says “it doesn’t matter”. In Steve Job’s case, his progress from his small beginnings to huge successes was evidently remarkable. It is also obvious that he was ambitious, even though his business was small, he aimed high by targeting big businesses like IBM and others, and this eventually led him to greener pastures. To hasten his rate of progress regarding the business, his business approach was to be competitive and overcome big businesses in his own way. If ever I become a graduate student, I will take a different approach than Steve Jobs’. Yes, I will be a technopreneur someday, like Steve Jobs, but career isn’t only limited to the nature of the job. It also encompasses the individual’s approach to his life and his means of how will the person earn money. Steve Jobs approach was very aggressive and ambitious. Through his burning passion for his work, he wanted to earn more and be known world-wide, in fact, he wanted to leave a big dent to the world, or its history, and into the future. With regards with my personality and that of Steve Jobs, I’m far way underdog of him. I think will not be able to do all the things that he did on his way to success. I don’t have the guts to do it. Moreover, I just want to have a kind of life that is not of pressured but still surviving. I want it to be in serene, clean and happy life.  If given a chance to have their place? I could not answer it right now. I’m having double thoughts about it.

WORDS TO PONDER. (Techno 2nd meeting)

“I don’t teach to live, I live to teach.” Those words captivated my attention. Though I was a bit sleepy for an early class that day, I could still remember those words. Things were not so clear for me that time because I was still on the process of perceiving the informations that our facilitator shared to us. All I wanted to do that time was to close my eyes because I could not grasped well since I lacked sleep. He sounded serious while he stated those words. But before jumping into some serious stuffs or learnings, I would love to state here how my day started. “This is IT”. Those words kept running on my mind last June 17, 2014. It was the second meeting of our class on the subject Technopreneurship 1 but it was the first time for me to attend the class. I was a bit agitated because surely I would face the consequence for not attending the class on the first meeting. The class started and my assumptions did not failed me. I, together with the absents from the first meeting were asked to go infront. I was super nervous at that time because, I think, until now, I'm not used to standing in front of many people. I thought Our facilitator would let us perform but he just let us explicited our reasons for being not able to attend the class from the previous meeting.  But behind those very embarrassing moments, I think our Our facilitator was just trying to "boost" our self-confidence. Of course, this course requires a lot of guts and self-confidence since it's about technology entrepreneurship, not just programming and computer language. And honestly it was a good "opening remarks" since we are not-so-well acquainted with each other. It was also good because it brightens up the atmosphere inside the gloomy classroom. After some sort of explanations and exchanged of advice from Our facilitator, the class proper started. We talked about Technopreneurship. A combination of the words “technology” and “entrepreneurship”. What do these words entail? “Technology is the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems while entrepreneurship on the other hand is is the process of identifying and starting a new business venture, sourcing and organizing the required resources, while taking both the risks and rewards associated with the venture”(cr. WordWeb and Wikipedia). These words made me wonder of how technology and entrepreneurship coincide because I used to inline entrepreneurship with businesses such as restaurants and marketing. The first thing that caught my attention was from Our facilitator’s thoughts about what technopreneurship is, “technopreneurship is the key to earn money through the use of technology in your own business”. Technopreneurship is the combination of the word technology and entrepreneurship, where it means business”. Technopreneurship is then entrepreneurship in the field of high technology. When I heard the word technopreneur, one thing that comes up in my mind is that, what it is the difference of technopreneur from any other businessman? ... Now I know, what differentiates a technopreneur from any other businessman is the way a technopreneur operates his business, the way a technopreneur assesses his understanding to his business as well as his readiness and ability to manage his proposed endeavor. Technology is broad and it innovates from time to time. When I reached my college years, I have been exposed to a new world. High-technology world. With computers and stuff (and the mind-boggling programming). It was this (Information Technology) course that led me to the inner depths of how technology works wonders, like the Internet. I’ve learned that Internet doesn’t only serve as an online database or virtual form of information, but also it is capable of handling businesses, which is called e-commerce. Wow. What’s more is that you can actually put up a business on your own with a minimal capital or no capital at all! Let’ just say that the Internet connection and computer unit is your capital, and that’s all! Super wow! This idea (and this fact) is what made me interested in business. That’s why I’ve been learning some online earning opportunities like how to earn dollars just by making a blog with click-on advertisements, and even writing articles for websites. As  an IT student as what I have heard from one of our professor when we graduate as an IT professional, we are more connected to the people and also in technology. Based on my understanding about Technopreneurship it is applying a Technology on a Business where Business and Technology meets. As I based today, I don’t really have any ideas of what would be my business all about because I am still studying and gaining more knowledge about the Technopreneurship. So, for me being an IT student, if I were given a chance of having a business I think I would prefer to have a business like making a Webpage or shall we say a Web Developer of some Advertising Services or any kind of products that needs a Webpage in order to advertise their products through the internet. Why I pick this kind of Technopreneurship, it is because that since I am an IT student and since I have knowledge of how to make a webpage then I could apply it on my Business which is a Web Developing. Thoroughly considering the viewers or target market, as well as defining the purpose and deciding what content will be developed, are extremely important. In order for me to have this kind of Technopreneurship, there are things that I must be considered, a room for me to do the encoding, a computer or a laptop in order for me to encode and the presence of mind in order me to have a fine-looking and functional webpage. All I have to do is to believe that everything will be impossible in the world of technology, more than ever through looking at the innovated tactics of technology now. The second thing that amazed me was the kind of thinking that our facilitator have. His efforts on making computer courses made known to south is a no-joke at all. I was affected with wonder on how he was able to come up with that idea. Instead of going to a better place to nurture his knowledge and enrich his learnings, he chose to stay and proposed another way to help the innovation in the south. He thought for the common good of all. He thought out of the box. Pretty sure.

Our facilitator gave us a quiz about connecting the nine dots using only 4 strokes without raising the pen. At first, I felt excitement in my heart because I was a bit challenged. I liked mind-games. Just as our facilitator was explaining the directions about the quiz, I was already imagining the strategies that I would do in order to solve the quiz. As he queued us to begin, there was an excitement in my heart as I drew the dots and connected it. Every stroked I made, I put my heart into it. There was joy while I was holding the pen and trying to connect those dots on the first tries that I did. Later, after the many tries, I struggled. I was having a hard time figuring out the way to solve it. I was puzzled and closed to being hopeless. Those attempts failed. I almost occupied the whole page of the paper. I stopped for a while and looked at those attempts I did. It was quiet messy. Our facilitator was asking us if we were already done. That made myself pressured. I took the pen again and tried more but it ended up not well. It was unresolved. There was a little bit of disappointment in myself. My other classmates were able to solve it. I was amazed but half of my heart felt like or asked like “Where on Earth did they took their knowledge or wisdom to solve it?”. Our facilitator called random students to go infront and show how they were able to connect it. Many tried but only few got it correctly. He asked the one who got it right about what he could say in connecting the dots. Those 5 words captured my attention, he said, “THINK OUT OF THE BOX!”. When I heard it, my initial reaction was like “Really?”, “Seriously?” but after a few moment I realized that he was right. He was able to connect it by overlapping to the boundaries of the dots. Realizations came into my mind though not right after the quiz. It took me a day to comprehend things out. Before I went to sleep that day, I recapped and tried to discern what was the message of those five words for me. “THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!”, many questions arised in my mind that moment and then later I realized that the reason for me not to be able to solve it was that I was and “am” a very “close-minded” person. I always followed the norms of the society. I always inline myself as to what the people around me has to say, to what the society accepts and to what the society used to do. I incorporated every decision I made as to what he society or the people around me told to do so. To “think outside the box” is much more easier to say than done. Not all people have that kind of free-way thinking. It is not just a click away for someone to change his/her ways. It’s not just a simply mindset but a lifestyle instead. As I go through discernment about not being a close-minded person, I have come with a realization of considering it as an art and this is where my creativity should manifest. Everything that I will do, I must not just settle for what is good but what is best instead. I must think creative ways that will make what I am doing be great. Even if it is just a small thing, I must be innovative to make it a big package. The ordinary things that I will do must be executed in an extraordinary way for me to be able to excel in whatever or whichever track I take. The mundanes of this world has so much to say about what life must be spend. For me, I have found atleast one of the ways to spend well my life. To think outside the box as I confine my current way of thinking. I have my own box to live with. I have my own box to define. I have my own box to discover. I have my own box to develop. I have my own box to make great. I have my own box to be think of outside without getting out of that box. I may sound so obscure about my point but what I am trying to say is that to think outside the box depends on the way I perceive things. Yes, it’s “thinking things out”, why and how I think that way. I have found understanding how and why I think the way I do about something to bring valuable insights. It allows me to challenge myself when I better understand the ways I am likely to be led astray or hindered with my own thinking.Thinking a bigger picture of the current situation or scenario I am into. This may not be easy to do. In learning there are no limitations; all of us must think positively and across the line. We must not limit our self to learn and set it with no boundaries. And also I came to realize that following a simple instruction makes a work successfully done. Whatever instruction it is – simple or complex. It would be easy when you follow the instructions carefully. These most common words that we meet halfway almost in our schooldays marks every inch of our lives, though it is simple but do have a countless impact in our separate lives.

"Go to school, get good grades, land in a high-paying job." This is the usual mindset that most people have about formal education. Parents send their children to school with this mindset. Students imbibe this mindset and carry it with them until college. Most schools subscribe to and support this mindset. It is like a default mindset. We can formally call it the employment mindset. The results of this mindset can be beneficial and can also be destructive depending on one’s point of view. In schools that are subscribe with this mindset, in their perspective, this is beneficial. Schools with this mindset just have the same perspective as with our parents who have this mindset. Parents will be proud of their children’s success as well as the school will take pride with their best graduates that sought after by companies, offering them some compensation. The best graduates of the school then will be provoked to go to other places or to big cities and landed in high paying jobs. Then the average graduates of the school are left in their place they have graduated, finding hard to earn great income. The schools then are very proud of their graduates who excel in the companies they are working for. Our best graduates do help in the development of the big cities, but not in the place where they are from. Industries in their hometown remain thin and the development is in a very slow pace. We know we have these best graduates they can help develop and improve our industries not their but ours.

Depends on the point of view the result of the usual mindset can be beneficial or can be destructive. In the case of beneficial as we all know the best graduates of a school will offer them attractive compensation by the companies in which these companies are located in the Manila and Cebu which are the prosperous urban cities. In this case Davao City is not included which only means that the best graduates of the Davao City has been used by the other places of the Philippines. If you are one who offered this kind of salary you will definitely grabbed it. On the other hand the average graduates are just remain in Davao finding hard to land on a good paying jobs and find themselves following the path of their better classmates. The school will also be proud when they get feedback that their student excel on the company that they working on but however it is destructive to have this kind of reality that the best graduates of our city has been helping for the development of the other places but not our place which is the Davao City. It’s hard to accept that Educators of the Davao City help the students to be the best but other places used them for their own benefit. The industries of Davao remain poor while the other places industries remain growing that will lead for them to become prosperous. Will we just follow this kind of method? Not helping Davao to make the industry grow in better progress. There is a better solution into which all the graduates will remain in their own places and this is called the alternative mindset.

“Go to school, get good grades, create and own a company."Use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology. These statements offer an alternative mindset. We can formally call it the technopreneurship mindset. Technopreneurship is entrepreneurship in the field of high technology. It is the healthy interplay of technology ideas, technology skills, management skills and the entrepreneurial mindset. It starts with an idea, which when pursued, has the capacity to be transformed into a viable technology-based enterprise. The cultivation and nurturing of this alternative mindset can start in schools. A technopreneurship track in the IT curriculum can prepare students to be budding technopreneurs. The alternative mindset in what we call the technopreneurship mindset it is a mindset that a few graduates followed. A mindset, in which we went to school, gets good grades and after that creates and owns a company. For you to be able to create a company you just have to use your knowledge, skills, core values, creativity and passion to create and innovate through technology. In this way we will be able to contribute and get involved for the technological development of the Davao City. As we all know this mindset talks about technopreneurship, technopreneurship is an entrepreneurship in the field of high technology. This kind of mindset leads to the following benefits. Firstly, our graduates will remain in Davao to pursue their technology based business plans as their start-up in technology business incubators. The venture capitalists will invest in their high technology products, this is a great help especially when you don’t have enough money for the investment. The start-ups mature into stable IT enterprises and eventually locate in IT parks and buildings. Right now some IT incubators have been created that was started by the Brokenshire College. In this project it helps the graduated students to start developing their business plan and make it come true. They are free to use the computers for one year but they have to make sure that they will be able to finish the said project. You will be able to avail if your business plan is acceptable for them. If lots of IT parks and buildings will be created there will be lot of investors that will be attracted. So meaning the IT industry will be growing in progress. The graduates now will decide to build their careers and families in Davao, to decide to stay in our place. Those graduates who left Davao will return and decide to take a root in here. In result Davao City will become a home of highly competent and efficient IT professionals. The City will become prosperous just like Cebu and Manila. There will be lot of job creation. This means that lot of unemployed where be able to get a job. Davao City now will become the IT hub and capital of Mindanao.  In order to sustain the scenario made by the alternative mindset they made the Macro strategy into which the technopreneurship ecosystem will be in place that requires the synergy of the academe, IT industry, government and the business community. This synergy will sustain with the following components. The technopreneurship programs in the academe, technology-business incubators, venture capitalists and funding institutions, IT business incentives and the support legal framework, IT parks and buildings, access to domestic and international locators, IT enabled business enterprises and government agencies, IT enabled hotels and tourists destinations and the IT-friendly real estate environment. The synergy scenario is still far from reality but a lot of inroads have already achieved towards this direction. The Davao City had already an active IT academic community with the presence of PSITE-XI, CDITE-XI and PSITS-XI. There are several schools as of the moment that have committed to implement a technoproneurship course in their IT education programs in which USEP is one of it and as far as I remember our professor also mentioned there that USEP really made a good job during the competition. The IT industry is now in good hands with ICT Davao, Inc., the umbrella organization of all IT organizations in Davao. To date, we have one IT incubation center in the campus of the Brokenshire College. We also have one IT Park at the Damosa property while NCCC Mall is had an IT Zone at the fourth floor. We also had a lot of establishments providing free wi-fi access to customers. Mostly of these are the cafes in what I’ve just observed of the establishments that we had here in Davao City.  A number of locators have already set up camp in the city and there are others following soon. Things seem to be falling in the right place but the big challenge is how to sustain the emerging synergy and eventually maintain the ecosystem. So that Davao City will be the next prosperous place in the Philippines. Having to know these mindsets I came to realize that it is indeed possible that after graduating from this course I could become not just an an employee but I could be the employer. I have greater edge against others because I have the technology and today’s era is the technology era; the information era. There is so much opportunity out there that I can grab all I should do is go for it. I am so into the employee mindset that I forgot I could make an employer out of myself; become a technopreneur.

Next, we were introduced to the SEED model, SEED stands for Self Mastery, Environment Mastery, Enterprise Mastery, and Development of a Business plan.   In our class Our facilitator discussed a course model called SEED means:

 S – Self Mastery

E – Environment Mastery

E – Enterprise Mastery

D – Development of Business Plan.

 We had learned that one can develop self – mastery first is to know yourself, because self – mastery brings passion. I must know myself in order for me to know what I want in life. When I heard about self-mastery, I quickly asked myself, “Do I really know you Sang?” “Who are you by the way?”. I am the kind of person who loves to write. Yes, I am a writer wanna-be. To me, writing is hard work.  Painful sometimes. I used words to write what I didn’t yet have the courage to say in my own voice. I used words to mask opinions I was still too scared to own (I do reflections tho). I often think about writing. I wonder why I do it. I’m a writer-wanna be, just so you know. I used to wish of having hologram type of journal so that wherever I go, I can write, I can document a story, I can engrave an epistle of history. I’m one of those people that has started a hundreds of journals, but never been able to maintain them. I’m one of those people that loses them or dog ears them or rips out ideas and scribbles in the corners and has a thousand different handwriting styles that it looks like a thousand different people have scribbled their disjointed ideas all over the blue lined pages… I reinvented myself so often in my teens and early twenties (well I’m already 22) that old journals always felt like they were no longer me. So I destroyed them or put them away or forgot to write in them and quickly they became strange portraits of old versions of myself that existed in a fleeting moment. That’s how I see myself when it comes to passion. It may be very far out to connect when it comes to technopreneurship but for me to give my best I should know my potential.

I was wrong when I thought that success in life are always has more to do with education, great connections, being intelligent and genius, and learning from those with more experience. Why I was wrong? I just realized that these things alone are not enough to support the factors needed to achieve success especially if you are a business minded person. It requires more than just intelligence to be successful, success is more dependent on one’s ability to create options and alternatives in life. Some call it diskarte or the skill to be able to play one’s cards right no matter how bad the cards one was dealt with. Whether you are a technopreneur or entrepreneur it is necessary that we have the guts specifically acquiring the personal traits needed to reach our goals. I may not know what lies ahead and what is in for me, but I have visions and goals to achieve. Promises to complete and missions to fulfill. I am always keeping my optimism. After all, no one has ever damaged his eyesight by looking at the brighter side of life. The future is very uncertain and vague. I hope I can get through. With lots of things in mind and lots of possibilities, maybe someday I am going to be a “Somebody” who owns a company related to a technology. A somebody who is rumbling ideas coming up in my mind just like for example, prospering Nano technology. The most profitable business today is selling high technology weapons. On the darker side of the story, I can control the military by selling robots (artificial intelligence and laser computers). Then, in the near future, I will be the CEO or the owner of the renowned Cybernetic Corporation, a company that manufactures robots. I will make more robots to be used for space exploration, to discover the unanswered questions about the galaxy and space, the behavior of heavenly bodies and characteristics and composition of the planets and soon discover the undiscovered and know the unknown and fight the answers to indefinable matters. I can also use my robots for war and rescue operations. It would be funny to think that we are going to use robots for wars, it would be like child playing with action figures. But it would not bother conscience since that no human lives would be lost because robots will be the ones to fight head on with other robots. Like Tony Stark in the movie “Iron Man” who invented machine and sold it to war countries. But mine are robots, robots versus between those never ending war countries. Then, if my robots catch attention, then that would mean lots of buyers. With lots of buyers, I will become rich, thanks to technology it matched with my special skills. I will improve and update my robots from time to time and sell them with higher prices. Then my name would be known and I’m going to gain lots of money.

The thing that I least-liked in the sharing was the fact that the graduates that were trained here in Davao were mostly hired outside of the city. “Ako ang nagbayo at nagsaing, iba ang kumain.” That were the words uttered by Our facilitator himself. It made me realized how unjust the circumstance was. Teachers here in Davao molded the graduates to be competitive and firm enough to face the world and contribute innovations yet on the latter, those graduates will not be able to showcase their talents and skills here in their native hometown. Someone worked hard for something yet benefited nothing form it. This somewhat gave a heartsore in me. It’s a no-joke to exert effort and give your best to train someone yet you’ll gain nothing from it. It’s like a useless effort. I am not against those graduates, infact I understand them. All they want to do is to have a better life that’s why they grab the opportunity of working from afar to have bigger salary. If I were on their shoes I would do the same too. It’s a practicality matter. An opportunity knocks only ones and if it does so grab it. I don’t dislike them but what makes me feel antipathy is the idea of.

In my own conclusion to be an pioneering in a field of technology one should be think out of the box, one should think about innovations because Logic answer why and creativity answers why not.