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MINOR REPORT

Seminar Overview

In our Minor Field Trip we decided to have a conference within the social hall of the University of Southeastern Philippines. The event was entitled Graphic Design and Web Development. In which is a great opportunity to learn about graphic design and web development, there were two topics introduced to us where the first speaker shared his knowledge about graphic tools and the fundamentals of design. We learned the concepts of the principles of design and how it works in real world. The second speaker shared her knowledge about front-end development, and the basic foundations of front-end development and the difference of front-end and back-end development. And lastly the third speaker in which he share his experiences in competitions and being successful and a proud graduate of the Institute of Computing.

He, then, started his lecture proper about design. From his lecture I learned that the elements and principles of design are the building blocks used to create a work of art. The elements of design can be thought of as the things that make up a painting, drawing, design etc. Good or bad - all paintings will contain most of if not all, the seven elements of design. The Principles of design can be thought of as what we do to the elements of design. How we apply the Principles of design determines how successful we are in creating a work of art. The element of design are as follows: line, shape, direction, size, texture, colour and value. On the other hand the principles of design are as follows: balance, gradation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance and unity. He made special mentions on the necessary principles to be implemented on your design. Like balance, he said that in design it is a bit similar to balance in physics where he give an example of a large shape close to the center and can be balanced by a small shape close to the edge like in seesaw. Balance also provides stability and the structure to a design in which its weight distributed in the design. There was also about proximity, in which he said that proximity creates the relationship between elements. In design, it provides a focal point. Then another about alignment, an element to create order and organisation in a design, He said that aligning elements in order allows them to create a visual connection with each other. Another was repetition, it strengthens a design by tying together individual elements. Repetition can create rhythm and helps to create association and consistency. Fifth was, the contrast, it allows us to emphasize or highlight key elements in our design, he said that it is the juxtaposition of opposing elements. And the last principle is the space, where it refers to the distance or area between, around, above, and below within the elements. It was so fascinating hearing his talk it was very simple but plays a vital role in design. Even his presentation was of a good design to show correlation with his lecture. It was engaging and I truly believed that I can use everything I learned about the element and principles of design.

#January 23 2016

MAJOR PAPER

Seminar Overview

The subject FTS or Field Trip and Seminars is part of our curriculum. In our class, we chose model A to be our FTS Model. Model A includes one major fieldtrip, one minor fieldtrip a national seminar and two hours of intrapersonal skills and team building seminar. So as stated, when we chose Model A, we are already required to take our major field trip. Our major field trip was last September 7-11, 2015 at Manila. On the first day we went to DOST (Department of Science and Technology) and SSS Main Office. On the second day we went to IBM Philippines. On the third day, we attended the Y4IT Seminar at the SMX Convention Center. Mall of Asia. On the fourth day we went to the MMDA Control Office and then headed to Tagaytay and Enchanted Kingdom. On the fifth day we went to the University of the Philippines Computer Science Department and Resorts World Manila. It was an educational yet lovely trip.

#September 7 – 11 2015s

FTS - MEETING 4

It was the first official meeting of the FTS class. There were new students that decided to join so the officers decided to explain everything again to the class and stressed to pass all the necessary documents they were asking from us within the month because they need to finish filing it before the end of the month.

FTS - MEETING 3

A tentative itinerary were given and discussed to us. It was also opened to election to whether we will go to Enchanted Kingdom or not.Then there was a question to which 7th company we will visit.

FTS - MEETING 2

We had another meeting for the Model Selection of our FTS Model. The officers gave the model waivers to us to give it to our parents. Models A, B and C were explained explicitly to us.

FTS - MEETING 1

It was the first meeting of our FTS class. In the meeting, the president discuss the FTS course and give overview of the possible activities that we may encounter. Then we had an election for the new set of FTS officers of our class and an turnover also happened.

PAPER 3 - TEAM BUILDING

Last July 20-21, 2015, we had an Interpersonal and Team Building Seminar- a pre-requisite for our major field trip. It was organized by our class advisers and the Field Trip and Seminar (FTS) class officers. The seminar was made possible with the aide of the University Guidance and Testing Office (UGTO) and their personnel. The University Guidance and Testing Office(UGTO) is geared towards helping the students who are in need of support and assistance in their personal, social, academic, vocational difficulties. Certain challenges face the youth adult to full-adult form of behavior, expressions and reactions, social adjustment with peers, family and society, establishing goals and directions (educational and career decision-making), and evaluating their own values (conflict between idealism and reality). They work with students who may be experiencing a crisis, their goal is to assist them deal with their concerns before it develops into more serious problems. Guidance is an integral part of the whole educational program. It is designed to serve the development and adjustment of the students who are either in the critical stage or in the normal flow of college life. And as for us – the upcoming flight to Manila for our major field trip.

With the seminar coming to conclusion, I can say that its goal was to improve relationship among us. They want us to have a strong, deep, and close association. They want us to be associated based on inference, love, solidarity, regular interactions, or other type of social commitment. Human beings are innately social and are shaped by their experiences with others. Relationships are important for their ability to help individuals develop a sense of self. The relational self is the part of an individual’s self-concept that consists of the feelings and beliefs that one has regarding oneself that develops based on interactions with others. In other words, existing relationships influence one’s emotions and behaviors in interactions with new individuals, particularly those individuals that remind him or her of others in his or her life. There is also a thing about acceptance. Accepting oneself. We may have to encounter situation of frustration and regret and feel doubtful towards ourselves. We must always accept our mistakes, made by other people or made by yourself. You must have pride in yourself because there are some things that you can do and others cannot. But it doesn’t mean that you can do everything because there are some things that only he can do also that anyone else cannot. We have to accept that we have limitations on what to do and what can we act upon but that doesn’t mean that we must always be in that boundary. We have to overcome our limitation and set another limitation towards ourselves. We must always have faith in ourselves and others. And lastly is cooperation and team work. We have to cooperate on what to do and don’t do towards the ones who previously gone through Manila in order for us to not have a difficult situation on our trip. And for this to happen we have to have a great team work. That is why as our facilitator for the activity said good team-building skills can unite us around our common goal and generate greater productivity. Without them, we limit our self and the rest to the effort each individual can make alone. As we not only share expectations for accomplishing group tasks, but trust and support one another and respect one another's individual differences. Our role is to be lead our leader, the officers, so that we can go toward cohesiveness and productivity. A team takes on a life of its own and we have to regularly nurture and maintain it, just as we do individually.

#August 15 2015

PAPER 2 - NEXT PLANE RIDE

Honestly, I am not really a travel person. It just never appealed to me. I have been asked many times to travel outside of my hometown, this city, city of Davao; at first I would say “yes, why not” but then I get to my lazy moments hovering in my bed thanking God for my lovely pillow while it comfort me. I suddenly get all this nice feeling making me attached to my bed like I was chained to it, like even a moment of getting off of it is impossible. That is when we are supposed to go that I say “forget about me, I will stay here”. I have been told many times that it was just nerves getting on me. I laugh it off. I mean how could someone not me know how I feel. I know for a fact it was not because of nerves, as much as I have said no I have also said yes a few times. There might have been a certain factor as to why I have said yes but no, not ever because of nerves.

After a seemingly long time, I have not travelled in air not until recently. My second plane ride was to receive an award for Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (SWEEP) Open Competition. I got into this competition because of my subject technopreneurship. I never really expected the whole time of me taking that subject that I will some contest and Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (SWEEP) Open Competition that is. I was very skeptical when I received a phone call from an agency telling that I won. I told myself it was all hokum. And then suddenly there were other students as well were contacted that it finally set in. I won something. It was unbelievable. We were invited to join the awarding ceremony at the Raffles Hotel in Makati. Explaining our circumstances to them they have agreed to finance the expense and travel us from Davao to Pasay. They shouldered our plane ride, hotel and food when we were there. They had us booked in Tunes Hotel. The hotel was a decent. We were given a two bed room. The room was small but it the space is enough to move around. It was all glassy – there are just glasses everywhere. There is a mirror parallel to the glass door of the bathroom and the wall to where the headrest of the bed face is full on mirror. It was a bit bothering. I don’t need a constant reminder on that room of how I look, I pretty much know how I am. We took our time then and prepared for the awarding ceremony. I took several showers that day. The air is not suitable for me. I am sweaty and every time I get back to the hotel I feel so heavy like I had applied several layers of make-up from head to toe. Hours away from the awarding, a bus is already waiting for us outside the hotel. We finished early so we waited for the other participants at the hotel lobby and snapped some pictures here and there. When everyone was down from their rooms, we got into the bus and head on to Raffles hotel. It been a very long time for me to a five star hotel. Smart executives including Earl Martin Valencia, president of the local startup incubator IdeaSpace Foundation, awarded cash prizes to us (but is still out there somewhere), we will also get one year market runway support from SmartDevNet towards the commercialization of our apps. And we were also assured of additional cash prizes as well as a share of the revenues once our apps achieve commercial success. The next day we flew back to Davao. After several day later, a news article about us was published by SMART Communications in their website and then at SunStar Davao and even made it to the University website.

#Jul 20th 2015

FTS MODEL A

Field Trip and Seminars is a required course. I was supposed to join the last year’s batch of “field trippers” but I withdraw because there were just, I suppose, three or two of us “batch mates”. I joined again for this year hearing that there will be plenty of my “batch mates” and “friendships” are eligible to join. I was ecstatic to hear this so I signed myself immediately. I actually was shamelessly latching myself to the next one being egged to be the FTS President just for information. ;)

The previous batch of Field Trip and Seminars, the one I demitted myself from, also picked model A. I heard fascinating stories from their trip. They said they were inspired during the whole trip. This was one of the reasons why I chose model A. There were already a bountiful number of students who, like I, chose model A and were out encouraging the others to choose the same model as us. Although upon learning after that the place that the previous batch of field trip and seminars visited, was the capital of the Philippines - the city of Manila, will probably be the same place that we will visit this year since it needs a majority vote and I think plentiful already thinks that Singapore is too much. Just like what I have said before the other options were gone in the wind. It got annoying when we were told stories that the place is not a great place for us. But honestly, I think we all know that. Some were waning already but got it together. With all of those unpleasantness, I was once again reminded why I don’t like Manila. But I channeled positive energy and cleansed myself of all the negativity so I can actually be quite excited about the idea, I’m not excited about visiting the place but I’m much more excited about the challenges that we will meet and the practical contact with different people. Aside from the fact that I was inspired about the previous batch trip and the fact that some students encouraged me to choose the first model which is the model A, ever since they had introduced to me or to us the models that we will choose from, my personal choice is this, the model A. When our FTS president Guarino gave us a copy of the Field Trips and Seminars model waiver, we were told that our parents or guardians will be the ones to choose which model we should pick. After my mom read the Field Trips and Seminars model waiver, there were no crazy conversation I just told her to sign the field trip and seminars’ model waiver and that I’ll be going with model A – no questions asked then she just immediately agreed with me. I have my reasons why I like the first model which is the model A.

#Jul 4th 2015

Business Model Canvass?

What is a business model? It is how a company creates values of itself.

There are nine component of business model: value propositions, customer relationship, revenue streams, cost structure, key partners, key activities, key resources, channels and costumers segments.

A business model canvas it not as easy to do as I thought it would be. There are a lot of things that are needed to be considered. But once you will be able to finish a good model canvas, it will fruitful. The very essence of the business model canvas is to simplify and represent the core aspects of your business in a very precise manner that is understandable and could be of use when you present your business to your prospect investors.

#August10

Fifth Meeting. SNAP!

Last August 9 of 2014, the mark of our 5th meeting for Technopreneurship 1, we had our make-up class from eight o’ clock in the morning until five o’ clock in the afternoon. Our professor started off with a lecture from more than a hundred slide presentation converted into a pdf format. He said that will be the last discussion or lesson ha we will be having for the subject. In the lecture, he had discussed the ways to be a successful technopreneur. He first asked us three things: what we love, what are we best at and finally, what our irritants are. It took a very long awkward silence from us. No one dared to answer our instructor’s questions and because of that our instructor decided to skip the questioning and instead, he proceed with telling us as to why he had asked those questions. He said that is important to us to identify these things. It is important because these are catalyst to becoming a technopreneur. In a way, it is a self-mastery. The first question, what we love, for me is somewhat related to what they say that you are not giving it all if what you are doing is not actually what you love. Like in a movie, where a girl is just satisfied on what she was in her work that she gets frustrated and it was because she did not learn to love or at least have a passion on her work and that is why her performance was poor. I guess the same goes with technopreneurship, you cannot really expect to excel on your business if it is not what you love. You will just see it as a burden once things will start heating up. The next question, what are we best at, I think that one was pretty much established from our previous discussion. That it is important to know our strengths and make good use of it. The third question, what our irritant are, this, I believe, pertains to our weakness. It is not just simply telling us to be aware of our weaknesses. Our instructor told us something that I see as something inspirational – turn your weaknesses into your strengths. It way a good one, I think, and always keep on hearing those from movies. That part of the discussion was one of my favorites. Weaknesses cannot just be simply overcome in just a snap but they will never be always be our weakness and if given time we will be able to turn these weaknesses into strengths and better our chances as a technopreneur. Another part of the sharing that I liked was the SWOT. Our facilitator discussed to us SWOT analysis. SWOT is an abbreviated term for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. He said to us that this analysis might be a big help in our future to overcome struggles. It was said that through this, we will be able to identify the weaknesses that our business might be have and be able to prepare preventive measures to avoid failure. Next thing that our facilitator had discussed to us was teamwork. We all know what teamwork is. Teamwork is the coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause. The word teamwork is something that is very common to all of us, but still it caught me off guard. Perhaps, it was because I had focus on different things that I have overlooked teamwork. And of course, as we always say teamwork is essential.

What do I liked the least during the sharing? Well, there is nothing much, I guess, because during that day as I have had remembered I was in the very good mood and, well, there is nothing not to like at all. It wasn’t dull. The atmosphere was right. Maybe there is one thing I slightly didn’t liked. The in and out of the students. Our facilitator was generous enough to grant us that make-up class and have a class all day. The problem was that the some of us had classes and just as well they had an activity on the other class. That was a bit distracting but beside that everything was fine. Everything that was discussed was informative and was delivered to us exceptionally. Though my retention is somewhat bad, I still get bits of what our facilitator had said during that time. I thing I did not expect was the lecture ended earlier than I had expected. Probably that would from the hundred plus pages of the lecture. Everything our facilitator had done was splendid. It was a bit fast and ,yes, we had skipped some part that he deemed not important or have already been tackled to us from our previous discussion, and there were some side stories but everything stayed straight and correlated to the topic, everything. From the previous meetings we had, I already have observed that our facilitator is very good on discussing, on unloading the topic unto us and I am very grateful for that. Because I know I takes a lot of skill to be able to do such. I guess our class was lucky to have him as our instructor for this subject, Technopreneurship 1. As I have said earlier, everything was fine, the atmosphere was fine but what I had forgotten to mention before was the air conditioning, well, it was poor. Consider this there are about 70 people in our class and that excludes our instructor, luckily a bunch of my classmates were gone attending a scheduled class which had lessen our numbers in the room the place but ,gosh, all I felt during the first few minutes of the class was the hotness in there. I do appreciate the presence of the air conditioners in the room but they were not in a good condition. To sum everything up, besides the air conditioning I have nothing else that I could say I liked the least. Everything went smoothly there we no incidents and we ended the discussion fine. I just hope everything will continue as it is and maybe a better air conditioning next time.

#august9 #august25

Proposal Experience

For me, the experience was nerve racking. I had these moments while presenting and catching glimpses from my classmates and our facilitator I feel discourage and just want to stop. There are times when I question myself if perhaps I did this, did that could the result be different but I didn’t dwell much on those thoughts ‘cause I felt it holding me back. I also had these un-containable excitement feeling that finally this idea might get approved. The day I had another idea to present I was thinking to myself it's high time for me to get an approval, and I did. I was just simply happy with it and all. The important thing, I guess, in presenting was to give it directly, not too detailed that you’re boring your audience, just enough to have them the gist and understand it very well.

#September3'14 #proposal experience

My business model canvas for techno1. Title is subject to change. Date Approved (Idea) : August 5, 2014.

#August 5 #BusinessModelCanvas #Approved

Fourth Meeting

As far as I could remember, it was said that were four things that comprises the technopreneurship ecosystem – the ideas, the pre-requisite (i.e. materials, money, personnel, etc.), the business model canvas and its nine components. These were drawn from the pictures that our instructor have shown to us. There was a photo of someone fixing a computer, someone building a bahay kubo and another photo. To be a successful technopreneurship you will need HELF. HELF stands for human resources, environment, law and policies, and financial resources. HELF is the four components of technopreneurship ecosystem. Human Resources pertains to the researcher, developer, scanner and marketing people, financer and etc. They are the workers. And where the workers work is the environment like science parks, incubators, academic institutions, R and D centers, internet access, communication and other support services, geographic accessibility, venturing and monitoring services and support. But for these to work without any problems we have to follow laws and policies cause there are such things like intellectual property rights, technology licensing – facilitates commercialization of inventions, and legal services; these are one of the things you need to check before making everything official. Lastly, is the financial resources; this is where we are going to get our money to start the business such are the venture capitalists and investors, business sectors, funding agencies, financial services (i.e. accounting).

Why Technopreneurship?

From my previous post, as said by our facilitator, technopreneurship is "Creating the NEW and destroying the OLD": new knowledge, new products, new processes, new services, new market and new business. It is high tech ventures in ICT, electronics, internet, life science and biotech. Service firms where technology is critical to their mission, such as: e-Bay, FEDEX, Smart money transfer and e – learning. It is the use of technology in the delivery or conduct of normal business activities.

Based from the presentation we had last meeting here are why:

Population - 84M (somewhat 4 or 3 years ago)

Working age? Approximately 50 % of the population – 16 years old and below

Employment generation

Gross National Product from large companies > 100 employees

Gross National Product from small companies < 100 employees

Number of large companies 5 %?

95 % are small companies?

Technopreneurs are important agents in the economic growth of the country as they help the increase the national capital and the country gets maximized beneficial outputs from them. They are also an important agents of progress. As they are like entrepreneurs who are also financial capitalists the waste output from their projects, business and etc. is minimized.

The How

As our instructor had said we must start the ball rolling. Under this are four – innovation, triggering events, implementation and growth. The discussion of each was fascinating especially the innovation part were until now I still stuck because I haven’t had a single idea approved by our instructor. This part is where the person gets an idea either by active search by chance, present employment or experience. The triggering events would pertain to how you come up with the innovation. It could be due to your career prospects or deliberate choice.

There were common components that was introduced: excellent market opportunity, superb technopreneurship and resource that you need. Though I forgot I these were explained by our instructor, I still have this feeling that it is somewhere in the back of my mind, I just couldn’t pinpoint it exactly.

BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS: The DIFFERENCE OF COMPANY AND START UP

What is a company? A business organization which sells a product or service in exchange for revenue or profit.

What is a startup? Unlike a company, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and saleable business model.

What is a business model? It is how a company creates values of itself.

There are nine component of business model: value propositions, customer relationship, revenue streams, cost structure, key partners, key activities, key resources, channels and costumers segments.

There are two types of value proposition as discuss by our instructor the qualitative and quantitative types. Value proposition is the newness, services, customization, accessibility and etc. It is the description of what the company offers. Costumer segments describe who the company offers their value to. Channels is how the company will reach their customers. Customer relationships is the relationship that the company builds. The revenue streams is how the company makes money or profit. Key Resources is what capabilities are required. Key partners are the partners that serve as leverage for your business model.

But before you think or make of this – making a business model canvas, you might first think if it is in need or are there lots of people who will need your values and the timing, is it the right timing? Like the question thrown to us by our instructor that day, can you give me the names of your prospect customers? He said that if we can’t answer this – give any names then we only had an idea not a market as to where we will gain profit thus losing the essence of building the canvas. Because the thing we your values is that no one is going to buy or the selling market is indeterminate making it a non-revenue or non-profit. With the timing, usually if entrepreneurs see a window briefly they rush to open a business and this is usually done without inadequate planning. Because of this, it can led to costly mistakes.

#july29

SHARING

Which part of the sharing you liked most and least; and why?

This post is in regard to the meeting we had last June 24, 2014 wherein we had further discussed technopreneurship and the following: roles of technopreneurship in job creation and national economy, importance of technopreneurship, types of technopreneurship (entrepreneurship), characteristics of a good entrepreneur and the SEED model together with the different the mind quotients.

In this mastery it is no longer always about you now it is about your surroundings. And to be able to know what is going on, on your surroundings you have to have awareness. In self-mastery, you are trying to figure yourself out. You now know yourself fully from weakness to strengths and honed everything that could be honed. But in environment mastery your concern will go beyond yourself. Here you will be starting to ask questions like “How can I help the people?”, “Will this do better for them?” Technology can affect society in more than one way. It is about generating business ideas and seeking opportunities out from his or her environment through serendipity walks, crises, trends, etc. Previously, I have been writing about the goods it does in our human life but it does not touch all people and things in the same way because it can have harmful effects. Harmful effects often seem to accompany developments in technology. For example, the automobile has resulted to faster transportation, but it also led to many highway deaths. Other changes in technology have made some aspects of life less pleasant and have harmed the environment. The harmful effects of technology can be widespread. But technology also can provide ways to solve many of these problems. These is why it is important to know and be aware of your surroundings. You have to protect it. Learn how to deal with them. I will not be done overnight but always think of the sake of others. Would you rather live a life full of advancement but have a deteriorated environment? I don’t think so. Would it be better to live a life full of advancement and an improved environment? Always think of counter measures. It is not about just the idea you have, you must also think of all the possibilities that it could affect the life of all people living. So, here is a challenge for you: make sure the benefits of your ideas can outweigh the harm effects. Like for example, materials can be recycled. This preserves raw materials and often saves energy. New synthetic materials are being developed to replace the natural materials that are in short supply. With that, always created ideas that will make people live better and our environment better.

#july15

Pirates of the Silicon Valley

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

“You’ve got to find what you love… Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”- Steve Jobs

Of course, who would even think of not being successful in any field we choose, right? You might be asking as to why I am so attached with success? Every time we hear of the word success what comes immediately to our mind is the wealth and the fame. But my view of the success that I want to achieve as a technopreneur is way different than these two things; the wealth and the fame but the money actually gave more appeal to me. For me, it is for when I have achieved harmony. Believe it or not, not all of us are aware that we are very far away in achieving balance. We always associate this with the way we manage of our mundane activities and sudden changes or factors that affect our activities. But it isn’t just that, it is the satisfaction we get from helping someone instead of benefiting our self that gives us the peace in mind. And with the deeds we make to achieve the harmony within ourselves, we are communicating to ourselves as to how we take an act and do the task that we do all the time. With this, we take to know ourselves more and more. If we have something that is lacking or something that is too much, we tune ourselves. As we realize this, we better understand what benefit the others aside from our self. We no longer stress about the things that bother us, since most of our stress as I can attest comes from thinking too much of how we act or the way our personality is being perceived by the others. Being successful, it opens a lot of doors to unfamiliar patches. I will be able to gain courage and be able to offer to everyone the things that I can do and will be able to do. These challenges; I will perceive and solve to define my success and me as a person. Since I have learned and will learn to properly set my mind with the help of this class (Technopreneurship 1), I can definitely be able to deal them and remove them effectively. With these, I will be a role model to others and as they could imitate me. Being a role model is one of the things I dream to be able to achieve. I might be sounding too full of myself but there is no harm in seeing myself to achieve these, I take no shame. As these, I believe, are the things I want to define myself in the future that will come in my way. And through technopreneurship I feel strongly to be able to do such so. But, I will not settle with just these. I will continue to expand my vision of my life, and, yes, that includes by career path as a technopreneur. I know will not find a hard time doing this as I will invest in nourish and flourishing, like what Steve Jobs had done, myself. This will make my capabilities expand and I will be able do more beyond my limitations. In this way, I will be able to set my goals higher and be able to achieve more. At every possible opportunity, I will grasp. I will believe in myself as other believe in me. I know for myself that I’m a big risk taker and I just don’t dream big, I act big (I hope). I will convey all of these with character and demeanor and also in every interaction that I will be having. Of course, the bonus of these all is the wealth (money, baby).

How am I going to achieve all of these? I am brave and adventurous. I will be able to handle the things that will come in my way even the thing I expect least to happen. I overthink things, I think of everything ahead and make every counter moves and best defense there could possibly be. I take things that are needed to be taken seriously with. I can be collaborative. I deal of whatever the consequences my actions may result to and assume full responsibility of everything I am part of. I am a kind of person who will see things through. Though at first I can never imagine myself being a technopreneur. I was satisfied on how the things were going for me. I never complained on how things are. Everything before, for me, was simple. I was still in a shell of the ideology, a sickening ideology of going to school – get good grades – graduate – and land job at a company. But it all changed, when I got the chance to enroll in this course subject. So far, I have learned a lot of things that I deem very beneficial to me and could be of use in the near future. Like with the 9 dots activity we had, I had learned violate the common assumption. We have to start experimenting and actually think outside the box. We must remove the assumption we had imposed on ourselves as it could be the reason for weakness. As mental constrictions limited the way we think. Also with the alternative mind setting, as I had said, our mental inclination will help us make it in this world. But if we live by the old mind-set, going to school – get good grades – graduate – and land job at a company, then this fixation we have on our life should be changed because we need to in order to further our living situation. We must not be brought by under rules, regulations or whatever there may be that will hinder our mind’s functionality due to dictatorship of the person who imposed on you like our parents sometimes does. We must weigh everything before we take it in. And I am sure I will learn more in the coming meeting that we will be having in this course. And I can say for sure that as I set myself in the world of technopreneurship, I am very well aware of the cases that I will be in and will never regret. And I will assure to myself and prove that I was not wrong in choosing the path of living as a technopreneur.

As he dropped out of Reed College, he reconnected with Wozniak, who knows more about electronics than he did. Together they got into a business and gave birth to Apple 1, which was a logic board, which was built in a garage. They then earned enough money to start up a company and called it – Apple Computer, Inc. Followed then was the creation of the Apple II with complete keyboard that became popular to the masses. The board of the directors relieved Jobs from his position during the time of slumping sales and replaced him with another CEO. This was also the time were there were internal disputes going on inside the company. Jobs continues and started another company that aims to design computer for education purposes called the NeXT Corporation. He also had help the launch of Pixar Animation Studios, which is now the leading computer animation studio in the world and is merged with The Walt Disney Co. The Apple hired yet another new chief executive to raise the company’s financial hardship in competition with Microsoft but failed to do so. Unhappy with the results the company turned back and asked Jobs to lead the Apple again as the CEO. Jobs once described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who just wanted to make a difference. Quite appropriately like the archetypal romantic hero who reaches for greatness but fails, only to find wisdom and maturity in exile, an older, wiser Steve Jobs returned triumphant to save his kingdom. Jobs had introduced the iMac, a curvy, one-piece computer with a simple design; the iBook, a laptop computer built for students; and the powerful G4 desktop. Apple then introduced iTunes, for playing and converting music for portability, and the iPod, a portable music player. This had made one of the biggest impact the Apple Company and also in the music industry. Jobs then worked and worked, and introduced the touch screen iPhone cell phone and the iPod Touch, a portable music player high than the iPod with the touch screen functionality. Jobs was also the one who have unraveled the iPad tablet, which was another huge hit for the company. Jobs also continued to improve and launch series of iPhone till iPhone 4S. Steve Jobs died

Considering the efforts and works that Steve Jobs pursued and the other responsibility he had, if given an opportunity I will follow his career path. The way he had set everything in his order or the way he sees it is need to be done is admirable. "From the time he was a kid, Steve thought his products could change the world," says Lee Clow, chairman of TBWA/Chiat/Day and Jobs' longtime ad man. Because of his confidence and knowing; and determination; he did just that and definitely rocked the world. He became a very successful technopreneur. He might lack in things that involves emotion with his employees besides anger but he always manages. His career path is realistic. It was not just in his imagination that he will change the world, he sought for it. He planned things through and endured every hardship and struggles he had to face. He always make a way to go back to the route he needs to be. Though lacking, Steve Jobs know how to recognize and he recognized that he lacked things that is needed to be fine-tuned with. And he does. All of the things Steve Jobs had done led him to the path of success that I believe he deserves. Steve Jobs was ideal for me because in time he was able to face himself as he battled to gain inner harmony and uncover the parts of him that he did not know existed of him. Based on his experiences he had embodied a great deal of passion. From his visualization and determination, he came with success. Jobs not only took off himself, he also knows how to recognize the efforts of the people he works with. He really did worked hard in his career. And worked hard. His career was an inspiration not only to me and also to the other future technopreneurs out there. His career made me realize that everything should simple. That anything should not be complex but simple and clean. In all of these cases, I will definitely follow. From his mistakes I will perpetuate. As we are a different person, Steve Jobs and I, I will work my very best to make a latch of my own in our history. Steve Jobs will serve as my guiding light in my career path in technopreneurship.

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Alternative Mind-Set

When you are sent to school what is your usual perception? Or what does your parent want of you to go to school? The usual answer is to get good grades and land a job. Let us face it, most Filipino parents send their children to school to get a good transcript and land a job in a company. With this kind of thinking that Filipino parents have, it is instilled to the child’s mind. And the child carries this ideology and passes this way of thinking to the child they’d be soon in the future be having. And so on and forth, we all know how this works. The way these children will think will affect their future. It is like the parents had influenced the child and enclosed his thinking and sights to what the parents like their children to be; to have a job in a company. This is the old mind-set. We have a saying that goes, “Aim for the moon.” It won’t hurt aiming high since we got nothing to lose if we fail, but at least, we got to the chance to try. Contentment of the way things are is not a good attitude to have being a technopreneur. You are aiming to innovate to better the living situation of every person in this planet. Instead of carrying that old kind of rationality, break it and go to school to get a good transcript and be the owner of your own company. Do not worry about how you’d be able to start your own company, just simply start your own company and everything else will follow.

Like I said, our mental inclination will help us make it in this world. But if we live by the old mind-set then this fixation we have on our life should be changed because we need to in order to further our living situation. We must not be brought by under rules, regulations or whatever there may be that will hinder our mind’s functionality due to dictatorship of the person who imposed on you like our parents. The works in our mind is complicated but the thing is this complication can be manipulated just bury a seed and grow it, and later on this complication appears to cease to exist. As I had said, this will continue on if don’t put a stop to it. That is the thing with rules and regulations set by other people in your life. People can be easily persuaded; and people can easily adapt that we lose a touch of our true self. It is part of a person to grow but growing under the influence of other people, I don’t think so. So live up, think and influence yourself. This is just my way of saying to not let anybody control you and be the person who you really want.

Take what I said earlier regarding what Filipino parents commonly instill in their child’s mind. Yes, you do go to a good school, have earned many awards, achievements, and good grades; and landed a job on a company; but think of this, is this what all you can see yourself in. You did everything that is necessary to be the best. And you just ended up being someone’s beef. This mind set reflects most of the people here in the Philippines.

I gave it a thought, as our facilitator said, we have to change this mind setting we have. Let us not settle with what our society’s ideology has been since the past ages. Let us seek beyond it. Enough with the school, good grades, then become an employee; it is time for school, good grades, then become an employer. There are a lot of risks in starting your own company or business. Chances are your either going to fail or better yet succeed. Our facilitator made us grasp the gist of this alternative mind set. A mind-set that can set us free of the burden of our past ideology. A mind-set were you could possibly set your own terms. A mind-set that could give you better possibilities.

Everything in our life is a risk. Opportunities come and go. It is all in the matter of proper mind-set. And with that, beware that choosing either the old mind-set or the alternative mind-set does not mean a job or a success. For me, the most important part of this mind setting is yourself. It just does not give saying it out loud, I choose alternative mind-set; you have to do it. Work it on yourself and figure it out. Always have the right kind of attitude and you will be able go far in your life. And with that, the bullets of risks raining on you could be easily dodged.

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