TECHNOPRENEURSHIP Flashcards
is simply the merging of Technology and Entrepreneur skills.
Technopreneurship
is a person that possesses various skills in terms of marketing, communication
and strategically has the potential demand for the goods and services whether as a sole
proprietor, with partners and within a corporation.
Entrepreneur
4 Types of Entrepreneur
- INNNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEUR
- IMITATING ENTREPRENEUR
- FABIAN ENTREPRENEUR
- DRONE ENTREPRENEUR
is a person that have such a great passion in
discovering and developing new products, new ideas and new processes. They are the
one who is willing to take risk in every new innovation because they enjoy challenges.
Innovative Entrepreneur
is a person who immediately copy the existing products
made by the innovative entrepreneur because there is no such new inventions or new
innovations. As for an instance, the continuous development of mobile phones because of
the massive demands in the market.
Imitating Entrepreneur
is a type of person that is skeptical about the changes that
will be made in the organization. They are not decided to develop new innovations unless
they are satisfied with the result or the outcome of the released products in the market.
They are not risk-taker as they wanted to anticipate success in the market first before
indulging into the next project as they are not willing to have financial loss due to its
failure.
Fabian Entrepreneur
are reluctant to change as they are happy with the result of
their business even if they have financial losses. They are not eager to make anychanges
in their organization.
Drone Entrepreneur
Five Traits of a Technopreneur
- Strong Communication Skills that Close Deals
- Product Management Knowledge
- Deep Technical Understanding
- Take Big Risks
- Persistence
Differences between Entrepreneur and Technopreneur:
ENTREPRENEUR
Likes to compete
Self-starter/pioneer
Able to do many things at once
Creative/has goals and dreams
Likes to work for himself
Motivated to achieve and attain
financial success
Focuses on the chances of success
rather than the possibility of failure
TECHNOPRENEUR
Likes to compete
Likes to innovate
Part of a team
Able to do many things at once but
chooses to delegate
Innovative/Greater Vision
Likes to be one to control innovation
Motivated by a strong vision and the
passion to innovate
Takes failure in stride and knows
that if corrected it will lead to
success.
The ( 5 ) Entrepreneurial Process
- Opportunity Analysis
- Business Planning
- Gathering Resources
- Implementation
- Scaling and Harvesting
This phase refers to establishing demand and competitive analysis of the market.
An entrepreneur should have a clear vision by making a thorough study of the market
potentials to create strategies and desirable objectives for the growth of an
organization.
Opportunity Analysis
The entrepreneur should have a written business plan that composed of the
organization’s future goals, how to achieve those goals and the timeframe within which
these goals are to be achieved.
Business Planning
Entrepreneurial resources include sources of financing such like lines of credit and
investment capital, technology, networks of contacts and publicity. A business ought
to have four types of resources that includes physical resources, intellectual, human
and financial resources.
Gathering Resources
is a process of execution about what has been planned and
utilizing the numerous resources for the success of the business.
Implementation
is a process where the organization will encounter challenges. The
organization will experience painful point for rapid growth for stability and continuity
of the business operations.
is a process where the
organization will reap what they sow in dealing with the challenges they had
encountered throughout the process of the business.
Scaling and Harvesting
The ( 8 ) Technopreneurial Process
- Idea Generation
- Idea Screening
- Concept Testing
- Business Analysis
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Commercialization
- Test Marketing
- Prototyping
This is the process of creating, developing and communicating abstract, concrete or
visual ideas. It includes goals, strategies, concepts, design, style, plans and actions to come up with possible solutions for actual problems and opportunities.
Idea Generation
is a process that evaluates and contrast new prospective ideas for
your business. It is where assessment will be instigated to make sure that your ideas is
related to the business.
Idea Screening
is the process of testing new or hypothetical products or services
before they are launched [Management Study Guide]. It is probably the possibility of
generating the best product that has.
Concept Testing
is a process of identifying what the business needs and
determining solutions to business problems the will improved the process, management
and the financial status quo to deliver value to the stakeholders.
Business Analysis
Every business should be monitored and evaluated according to the performance in
the market. It is important for the business to diagnosed
problems and improve what is needed to stayed in the competition. Thru evaluation the
organization will identify the performance rating of the business.
Monitoring and Evaluation
is the process of introducing new products and services to the
market.
Commercialization
is a process of experimenting and assessing your product to check
its viability to customers compromising of actual stores and real-life buying situations.
It is to test the consumer reaction towards the new product or services in the market.
Test Marketing
is the overall design of the product where it shows its functionalities,
specifications and interface that is based on the business analysis.
Prototyping
popular for having invented the two of the foundation technologies
in
every Personal Computer (PC) until today, that is, the chip set and
the
graphics acceleration architecture.He also founded technology start-ups during his time.
Mostron, was one of that. During 1993, was the S3, considered the most profitable company in
the world. During 1996, was Chips & Technologies which later that year he sold to Intel.
Diosdado “Dado” Banatao
He is currently the CEO of Gurango Software, global provider of
Human Capital Management solutions. It is hailed as the most successful
Microsoft Dynamics partner in the Philippines. He was also appointed
President at the Philippine Software Industry Association.
Joey Gurango
He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Morphlabs.
Winston is a proven serial entrepreneur with a track record of
building successful technology start-ups.
Winston Damarillo
envisioned
a movement that would advocate for a positive and enterprising attitude
among Filipinos- a mindset that would help them move up in life and a means
out of poverty.
Hence, with the help of other businessmen, Go Negosyo was born.
Gonegosyo provides seminars, livelihood trainings, pamphlets, TV programs
and books to give Filipinos the knowledge to establish their own businesses.
Joey Concepcion
The company provides solar power in Leviste’s place. Through
family connections He has spent $100 million dollars in bank loans. He
was able to build solar “farms” and rooftop panel systems.
Leandro Leviste
Successful Local Technopreneurs
Diosdado “Dado” Banatao
Joey Gurango
Winston Damarillo
Joey Concepcion
Leandro Leviste
is known for co-founding and leading
Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer. He also cofounded and is a board member of the solar sail spacecraft
development project Breakthrough Starshot.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of ecommerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an
online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.
Jeff Preston Bezos
is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Drew Houston
is an American
computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with
Sergey Brin. Page is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. (Google’s
parent company).
Lawrence Edward Page
As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of
the most influential and richest people on the planet. Recent estimates
of his wealth put it at US$84.2 billion (Jan. 2017); this is the equivalent
of the combined GDP of several African economies
William Henry Gates
is something that involves developing, creating new concepts and new ideas that will be
useful for the target customers.
Innovation