technopreneurship part1

8/13/2019 Technopreneurship Part1

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Orlando M. Malaca, PhD.

Professor

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In the book entitled Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born,

Author Lloyd Shefsky defined entrepreneur as:

entremeans to enter

premeans before

neurmeans nerve center

Shefskys practical view on the term entrepreneur

leads to a definition of the word as someone who

enters a businessany businessin time toform or change substantially that business

nerve center.


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It is the process of creating something newwith value by devoting the necessary time and

effort, assuming the accompanying financial,

psychic, and social risks, and receiving theresulting rewards of monetary and personal

satisfaction and independence.

Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering

new ways of combining resources.

What is Entrepreneurship?


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An entrepreneur is a person who starts andor operates a business.

He/she is creative and innovative.

He/she is a person who starts somethingnew.

He/she may be male or female, young or old,

professional, college graduate or schooldropout, comes from A, B, C, D or E economicsgroup.

Who is Entrepreneur?
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Who is Entrepreneur?

He is an owner-manager and willing to take risksof a business or enterprise.

Usually he is someone not willing to work forothers. Instead, he wants others to work for him.

Usually, his kind of business is single

proprietorship because he does every thing fromproduction to selling.

An entrepreneur is an agent of change.


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List of Famous Filipino

Entrepreneurs and their BrandsManny Villarfrom fish vending toenterpreneur and politics

Lucio Tanthe tobacco kingSandy Andok Javierthe litson king

Brother Mikea religious enterpreneur

Socorro Nanay Ramosthe womanenterpreneur

Henry Sythe king of shoes
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Technology + Entrepreneurship

= TechnopreneurshipThe application

of scientific

knowledge for

practical

purposes,

especially in

industry:

"computertechnology";

"recycling

technologies".

the

process of

creating

somethingnew with

value.

is the process of

creating

somethinginnovative or

new applying

the scientificknowledge for

practical

purpose


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Who is Technopreneur?

Are entrepreneurs who are into thecore businesses involving technology-

based industries.

They make use of technology to

come out with new or innovativeproducts through a process of

commercialization.


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Who is Technopreneur?

The businesses are generally marked withhigh growth potential and high leverage of

knowledge and intellectual property.

Potential technopreneurs must be

equipped with both technical and business

skills.Example: Job Steve of Apple Inc.

William Henry Gates of Microsaft


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A technoprenuer is an entrepreneur who is technologysavvy, creative, innovative, dynamic, dares to be

different and take the unexplored path, and very

passionate about their work. They take challenges and

strive to lead their life with greater success. They dontfear to fail. They take failure as a learning experience, a

stimulator to look things differently and stride for next

challenge. Technoprenuers continuously go through an

organic process of continual improvement and always

try to redefine the dynamic digital economy.

Source: http://www.rajeshshakya.com/what-is-technopreneurship.htm

Technopreneur
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Jerry Yang. Co-founder ofYahoo!

Kevin Rose. Founder of Digg.com. Dropped out of college duringhis second year.

Larry Ellison. Billionaire co-founder of Oraclesoftware

company. Dropped out of two different colleges.

Michael Dell. Billionaire founder of Dell Computers, which

started out of his college dorm room. Dropped out of college.

Shawn Fanning. Developer of Napster. Dropped out of college

at the age of 19.
http://www.yahoo.com/http://www.digg.com/http://www.oracle.com/http://www.dell.com/http://www.napster.com/http://www.napster.com/http://www.dell.com/http://www.oracle.com/http://www.digg.com/http://www.yahoo.com/


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Steve Wozniak. Co-founder of Apple, billionaire.

Steve Jobs. After attending one semester of college, SteveJobsworked for Atari before co-founding AppleComputers. Now withoutthe Computers in their name, Apple includes innovative productssuch as the iPod, iTunes, and most recently the iPhone. Steve Jobswas also the CEO and co-founder of Pixar before it merged with WaltDisney

Bill Gates. Ranked as the worlds richest person from 1995-2006, BillGates was a college drop out. He started the largest computersoftware company, Microsoft Corporation. Gates and his wife arephilanthropists, starting The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationwith afocus on global health and learning.

Theodore Waitt. Billionaire founder of Gateway Computers. Droppedout of college to start Gatewayone semester before graduating.

Tom Anderson. Co-founderand friend of MySpace.Dropped out of high school.
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Assignment :

Think and create an innovative design of a certain product or service.

Submission: Next meeting

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