Business Plan (Report)

Business Plan for Falcon Computer Service

Company Description

•It started 20 years ago

•Established by Ms. Nica Cuevas, BS Information Technology graduate of Adamson University

•Started selling computer parts and accessories

•Later on, their business become known in the market and has now gain more customers

•They are now partners and distributor o most academic  & government institutions. They are also distributor of all the computer parts, accessories and some IT products of known companies like Load Central, CyberTech Call Center and etc.

The Pirates of Silicon Valley

The film opens with the creation of the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh. Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) is speaking with director Ridley Scott (J. G. Hertzler), trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott, however, is more concerned at the moment with the technical aspects of the commercial.

The film then flashes forward to 1997 as Jobs, who has returned to Apple, is announcinga new deal with Microsoft at the 1997 Macworld Expo. His partner, Steve Wozniak (Joey Slotnick), is introduced as one of the two central narrators of the story. Wozniak notes to the audience the resemblance between "Big Brother" and the image of Bill Gates(Anthony Hall) on the screen behind Jobs during this announcement. Asking how they "got from there to here," the film turns to flashbacks of his youth with Jobs, prior to the forming of Apple.

The first flashback of the film takes place on the U.C. Berkeley campus during the period of the early 1970s student movements. Jobs and Wozniak are shown caught on the campus during a riot between students and police. They flee and after finding safety, Jobs states to Wozniak, "Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are." Wozniak then comments that "Steve was never like you or me. He always saw things differently. Even when I was in Berkeley, I would see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards while he'd see karma or the meaning of the universe."

Using a similar structure, the film next turns to a young Bill Gates at Harvard University, in the early 1970s, with classmate Steve Ballmer (John DiMaggio), and Gates’ high school friend Paul Allen (Josh Hopkins). As with Wozniak in the earlier segment, Ballmer narrates Gates' story, particularly the moment when Gates discovers the existence of Ed Roberts' (Gailard Sartain) MITS Altair (causing him to drop out of Harvard). Gates' and Allen's early work with MITS is juxtaposed against the involvement of Jobs and Wozniak with theHomebrew Computer Club, eventually leading to the development of the Apple I in 1976 with the help of angel investor Mike Markkula(Jeffrey Nordling). The story follows the protagonists as they develop their technology and their businesses. At a San Francisco computer fair where the Apple II computer is introduced, Gates (the then-unknown Microsoft CEO), attempts to introduce himself to Jobs, who snubs him. This is followed by the development of the IBM-PC with the help of Gates and Microsoft in 1981.

It also follows Jobs' relationship with his high school girlfriend (Gema Zamprogna) and the difficulties he had acknowledging the birth and existence of their daughter, Lisa. Around the time his daughter was born, Jobs unveiled his next computer, which he named, The Lisa. The Lisa was then followed in 1984 by the Macintosh, a computer inspired by the Xerox Alto. The main body of the film finally concludes with a birthday toast in 1985 to Steve Jobs shortly before he was fired by CEO John Sculley (Allan Royal) from Apple Computer.

It also includes a brief epilogue, noting what happened afterward in the lives of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The movie ends with Steve Jobs returning to Apple after its acquisition of NeXT Computer, and Bill Gates appearing live via satellite at a MacWorld Expo in 1997, during Jobs' first Stevenote keynote address, to announce an alliance between Apple and Microsoft.

Definition of Technopreneurship and Entrepreneurship

Technological Entrepreneurship

•   Entrepreneurship in a technology - intensive context.
•  Process of merging technology process and entrepreneurial talent and skills. 

Who is Technopreneur?

- A person who destroy the existing economic order (creative destruction) by introducing new products and services, by creating new forms of organizations and by exploiting new raw materials (Schumpeter, 1934)

- Someone who perceives an opportunity and creates an organization to pursue it.

- Person who undertake risks ( by creating an enterprise or business) that has a chance of profit or success technopreneurship distinguishes themselves through their ability to accumulate and manage knowledge as well as their ability to mobilize resources to achieve a specified business or social goal (Kuemmerle, 2002)

- A bold, imaginative, deviator from established business methods who constantly seeks the opportunity to commercialize new products, technologies processes and arrangements (Baumol, 2002)

- Distinguishes logic from tradition, common tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from non sense while integrating variety of ideas from diverse groups and discipline (Manuel cereijo, 2002)

- Skilled in applied creativity thrive in response to challenge and lack for unconventional solutions. They experience challenges , creative visions solutions,  build stories that explains their visions for and then act to the part of the solutions. They forge new paths and risk failure, but persistently seek success (Dorf and Byers, 2005)

What is Entrepreneurship?

- A way of thinking and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach and leadership balanced for the purpose of the wealth creation (Babson's Definition)

- Creative destruction, dynamic disequilibrium brought on by the innovating entrepreneur rather than equilibrium and optimization is the norm of a healthy economy and the central reality of economic theory and practice (Schumpeter, 1934)

- Entrepreneur searches for charges responds to it, exploits it is an opportunity, innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs  the means by which the exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service (Drucker, 1985)

- Pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources currently under one's control (Stevenson)

What is Technopreneurship?

"Creating the NEW and destroying the OLD"

                - new knowledge

                - new products

                - new processes

                - new services

                - new market

                - new business

Entrepreneurial Process  vs         Technopreneural Process

Opportunity Analysis                      Idea Generation

Business planning                            Idea Screening

Gathering Resources                      Concept Testing

Implementation                                  Business Analysis

Scaling and Harvesting                   Prototyping

Everything starts on idea              Commercialization

                                              Monitoring and Evaluation

                                        Everything starts on an opportunity

Technopreneur and the Economy

Technopreneurs as agents of economic growth

Natural Capital  --->       Economy              <--Beneficial Outputs(maximized)

Entrepreneurs as an      

Financial Capital --->   agents of progress <--- Undecided Waste Output(minimized)

Intellectual Capital --->                      <--- Increase Safety

3 Elements of Intellectual Capital

•         Human Capital - skills, capabilities and knowledge of the firms people
•          Organizational Capital - patents, technologies, processes, database    and networks
• Social Capital - quality of the relationships with customers, suppliers and partners.

4 Types of Entrepreneurship

• Incremental - routine business, modest industry. Example: new coffee shop
• Immitating - limitation of a venture, same business model and template. Example: new regional branch and franchise operation
• Rent seeking - business that utilizes standards, regulation and laws to show on value of an enterprise. Example: licensing of patented ideas, products or trade secrets.
• Innovating - business type based on innovation. Example: new cure for infectious disease, new DVD format, new memory chip, new ICT enhance home appliance

Technopreneruship Definition Part II

• Hightech ventures in ICt, electronis, internet, life sciences and BIOTECH. Example: CISCO, Nano Tech
• Service firm where technology is critical to their mission, business that provides services.
•  Delivery or design of hightech products like computer hardware or devices.
• Use of technology in the delivery or conduct of normal business activities.

Sucessful Technoprenuership is equal to HELF

Human Resources                                           Laws & Policies

                                Techno Ventures

Environmental                                                  Financial Resources

Human Resources Components

·         Research

·         Thinker

·         Idea Generator

·         Innovator

Development

·         Implementation

·         Technical People

·         Marketing People

·         Financers

Environmental Components

·         Science Parts

·         Incubation Center

·         Academic Institution

·         Research Development Center

·         Internet access and communication and other support services

·         Geographic Accesibility

Laws and Policy Components

·         Intellectual property rights

·         Technology licensing office

·         Legal Services

Financial Components

·         Investors

·         Financial Services

·         Business Sectors

·         Funding Agencies