As I listen through the discussion of Sir Randy S. Gamboa on
his lecture or what I call a mini seminar, I can say that my mindset has
changed. First, when he let us prepare a yellow paper, I realized I didn’t have
one and when I attempted to ask for a sheet of yellow paper, he immediately
said that they must sell the paper for the price of double and that’s the time
I realized that being a technopreneur needs to be wise at making decisions and
always taking advantage of the situations in the business. Example is when it
is a specific or meaningful holiday, like Christmas, entrepreneurs intend to put
a discount or a midnight sale so they can sell more and that’s how technopreneurs
or entrepreneurs take advantage of a situation in which they can increase their
income. And then he let us prepare a blue ball pen. So, we bought outside and
we also bought a red ball pen just in case he requires us to need one. When we
went back to the room, he really required us to bring a red ball pen and the
thing I learned from there is that we always need to be ready in any case even
in the best case scenario and through the worst case scenario. We must be
always prepare for the worst. Just like in business, we must be always prepared
for any situation, be it for best, worst or an average situation. You must
prepare emergency plans in any case the situation gets worse. In the activity,
we need to connect the nine small, black and round circles using only 4 strokes
and we must never lift the ball pen up when we are doing the strokes. It was a
real challenge for everyone around the room. First, a student tried to solve
yet she failed, then the mayor who solved too but also failed until one classmate
solved it by overlapping the lines from the circles and when he was asked to
explain it by Sir Randy, he said that, the instruction was only to connect the
nine dots with 4 strokes and never raise the ball pen up but he never ever said
that we can overlap the lines so we can connect all the dots and we must also
think outside of the box. Which in this case I think that thinking outside the
box is a necessary “skill” in technopreneurship, and anything else. Because of
thinking outside of the box, we tend to be more unique and more creative in our
ideas which are the factors that we must have as a technopreneur. Also,
thinking outside the box can help us solve our problems in a certain situation.
After that he discussed to us a little bit of history when he was to spread the
technopreneurship subject all throughout Mindanao and being Davao City as the
IT Capital of the Philippines which I also want to be part of in the near
future. He said that once there were Australians that wants him and another
former dean from the Ateneo De Davao University, to go to Australia to be
trained in Technopreneurship and instead, he requested that they will send some
trainers and he will call some faculties and deans so that most of Davao IT
faculties would learn Technopreneurship. He also taught us the Basic Mindset
which, what I understood, is that the basic mindset which is taught by parents
at home, school and almost everything in society is that ‘Go to school, get
good grades, land a good job.’ Which is not bad for me because that was my
mindset before. Most of the students also thought that this was the best form
of mindset until he introduced us the Advance mindset which is ‘Go to school,
get good grades, create a company, and let it grow.’ Which changed my mindset in
life because for me this was the more successful path than the first. Imagine
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many more company owners did this,
except Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were a dropout, but what they did was create a
startup company which is kinda hard to let it be consistent, but what they did
was get some ideas and modify it, sometimes they make ideas and invest in it.
One example is the Facebook, which is from the idea of Mark Zuckerberg’s
friend, what he did is ‘steal’ the idea and he added some modifications in it.
Because of this, his company became one of the most successful companies in the
world. Also, I think that because of this advance mindset, it may increase
people’s chance of being successful because they are thinking what is beyond
their capabilities. What I think about the basic mindset is that this is the
mindset which can let people be least successful than the people who think the
advance mindset. I am not underestimating the basic mindset, but being an
employer is better than being an employee. I think that being an employer for
me is more successful than being an employee. The basic mindset was called
basic mindset because, for me, it was the most common in which it is taught
everywhere, if it is not taught it was the default mindset of everybody else.
Advance mindset for me is taught or thought by some people who wants to be
really successful in life. Advance mindset for me is the one that drives people
into making ideas uniquely and creatively. Both are quite similar because in
basic mindset it is ‘Go to school, get good grades, and land a good job’, and
in the advance mindset is that ‘Go to School, get good grades, create a company
and be an employer.’ Here, the similarities of both is that go to school and
get good grades, what makes them different is the aftermath of both. And
because of the advance mindset lecture, my mindset was changed because what I
want before is to become just an employee for a company that I want to work
for, but now my mindset is changed to first work for that company for a while
and when I discovered a forte for myself then I would create a startup company
for that specific forte and then become an employer for myself, that became my
mindset after I heard sir lecturing and explaining us about this. For me,
technopreneurship teach us the advance mindset and how to be successful in
this. After that he discussed to us the macro strategy. He told us the steps to
spread the technopreneurship in Davao. He told us the schools in which takes
steps to promote technopreneurship in Mindanao specifically in Davao. The
universities were University of Southeastern Philippines or USEP, Ateneo de
Davao University or ADDU, University of Mindanao or UM, University of
Immaculate Concepcion or UIC, Holy Cross of Davao College or HCDC, University
of the Philippines or UP which is found in Mintal, Davao City, System
Technology Institute or STI College, and many more. He said that he and the
former dean of Ateneo de Davao University, called a meeting for most of the IT
faculties in Davao for the technopreneurship program which is offered by the
Australian government. He said that they asked for an expert in this and he
wants him or her to lecture to them the basics, needs and the goals of the
technopreneurship subject. He said that the government of Australia had 23
million dollars or pesos as a budget for this so what they did was he asked
them to help them make it as a curriculum for every subject in IT with the
schools that were invited. He also discussed to us the results if we graduated
in USEP. He said that the best graduates in USEP, lands in good jobs around the
world. One example is in Japan where she became a high ranked officer in
software systems, one was in Cebu in which he worked for a computer company, one
who is in Manila working for a gaming company and may more. He also said that
the best graduates are being lured into companies and they are the ones being
offered by the big companies and he also said that the average graduates stay
in Davao and is hard to land on related jobs. But he also said that even if
there are many advantages in being a great graduate in University of
Southeastern Philippines, he is quite saddened because, most of the best
graduates did not even help Davao become a sustainable and economic IT Capital
because they were hired by the outside companies and because of that, they
contributed more on the outside than their mother city in which the professor
said that “Tayo ang sumaing, iba ang kumain.” Which is the most suitable quote
for the event because they are mostly trained and furnished in Davao but
another company or place took advantage of it. That is why the Davao City is
the most human resource- provider here in the Philippines. I then realized that
I need to pursue my dream but after that I must contribute to make Davao the IT
Capital of the Philippines because as a student I also have the responsibility
too to at least contribute some learning or share some advices when they need
to work in the IT industry. Also, I think that even the smallest thing anyone
can contribute to make Davao the IT Capital of the Philippines is already a
huge step for all of us IT students, faculties, enthusiasts and many more to
make a dream come true. Also, he taught us about the SEED, which stands for
Self-Mastery as S, Environment Mastery as E, Enterprise Mastery as the other E,
and Development of the business plan as D. I think that the SEED’s aim is to
teach the students of their potential when it comes to Technopreneurship. SEED
is a course model for the subject called Techonpreneurship. Self-mastery’s
explanation is in which you must know thyself and what you should master must
be the passion in knowing yourself. Self-mastery is the passion from knowing
yourself. It also brings passion. When you know yourself, you know what you
want and what you do not want. It means that you must know what you want.
Example is that I like to create games and I don’t want to work on codes in
android apps, so what I must do is that I must enhance my skills on creating
games more than coding in android apps. Self-mastery is important in
Techopreneurship because what I think is that if you do business on something
that you do not want, there is a possibility that the business you are doing
will not do any good to you and you also won’t be happy in your business and
probably you will never ever make an effort to make that business a successful
one if you don’t like it. Also, a self-mastered person is a person that does
not need to have a high IQ, does need EQ or Emotional Quotient and AQ which
means Adversity Quotient, is naturally a performer, competitive and efficient,
an epicure, being sensual and cheery, and a boss, the one who takes charge and
loves a good fight, is a whole-brained person, has personal vision for the
business and knows the strengths and weaknesses of it. The second is Enterprise
Mastery which is about generating ideas and seeking opportunities out from his
or her environment through serendipity walks, crises, trends, and many more. An
Environment mastered person understands the industry he or she is in, sees the
opportunities and not the problems, is on the top situation instead of being
under the situation, and is the organization or the industry innovator and
strategist. Since we are in a modern industry, a technopreneur must generate
ideas based on the modern trends usually or what is needed in a specific area.
A technopreneur must know how to create initiatives, ideas, income from nothing
to something that is worthwhile. For me, a technopreneur must take advantage of
a trend, because this will help him or her create ideas that are unique and
creative with the use of trends since nowadays, people always follow what is
the trend in a specific time or place. He or she must also prepare very many
ideas in any case the first idea of his or hers is not that of an income
generator. Example for this is that the rising trend of Pokemon Go, in this
case many of the businessman in malls did a trend in which putting a lure
party, a special item in the said app, in malls to increase the customers in
the mall. Since it is in a mall, customers will also take advantage of the
shops in there and because of this the malls will greatly earn more money than
they should because of the trend and taking advantage of it. A technopreneur
must also take advantage of what are the trends nowadays. The next is a
technopreneur must be an enterprise mastered person. This means that he or she
must know how to run a business. This pertains to the knowledge of the
different enterprise disciplines such as creating the business, marketing
management, operations management, and financial management and risk
management. He or she also understands
and integrates the process of management (planning, organizing, directing, and
controlling) and leads
and inspires rather than manage. This means that a technopreneur must know at
least how to run a business, he must be good at deciding things in which there
are risks, also he or she must be good at leading different things especially
when it comes to financial and marketing, he or she must be good at speaking,
convincing, suggesting and taking risks when it is needed. He or she leads and
inspires rather than manage. He or she leads the team when needed, and he or
she must also be good at taking risks when the business needs to. And lastly of
the SEED, it is the Development of Business Plan. It is the development of
business plan covers by writing the business plan, presenting and defending the
business plan, and adding refinements to the presented business plan. A
technopreneur must also be good in making a reasonable business plan since this
is one of the cores of creating a business. He or she must have the reasonable
reasons in defending the business plan he or she developed and created. But in
developing business plans, he or she must also have the right reasons and
back-up reasons on why he or she included it in the business plans since for me
this the most risky part in technopreneurship, but if you fail in this one, try
and try again until furthermore you have succeed. SEED is one of the most
important part in the technopreneurship subject because this teaches the
students the basic and the life situations you are most likely to bump on while
doing the business.
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