Technopreneur Business Idea/s

Techno2 Assignment 2: Try to walk around somewhere and discover technopreneur idea:


The part of walking somewhere:

We were tasked to have a nice walk, to go everywhere and to have a serendipity walk, were in we could appreciate all the technopreneurial business, things and problems that surrounds us. To study over these businesses and crisis and gain some knowledge about them by simply observing, resolving and criticizing them. And somehow generate an idea from all of those businesses and problems. This task is all about generating technopreneurial businesses, with a good nature and on how these businesses contributed in our young growing society.

Nowadays, our country had been filled of businesses, but they are not just businesses, they are accompanied by the usage of technologies which made them considered as technopreneurial businesses. As I had said, these are businesses with the application of technology as their medium. Several investors had been engaged in these kinds of businesses, and glad to say that with their efforts they had managed to fulfill their goals and had delivered great services to their clients. These business owners and investors had practiced their discipline, which helped them to standout in their field. Here in Davao, technopreneurial businesses had been starting to popped out since the last years, and most employees had been started to be engaged in this kind of job. Several technopreneurial businesses had been growing here; some of these businesses are those Call centers, Gadget shops, Cell phone centers, System or Units shop such as the Octagon and CD-r King. These are some of the blooming businesses around here so far (as what had observed over the several technopreneurial businesses that surrounds us). Several Businesses of this kind had been putted up in our place, even in schools you would notice/see several technopreneurial businesses, an example of these are the: Photocopy Services, Printing Services, Net Cafes, Scanning, CD Burning and Editing services. These businesses work and render their services through the use of technology. See? Even in a form of a small business, technologies are being propagated, indulged in the business and used to deliver several kinds of services. This is just only some of the proofs that technology had really helped in the growth of our society.

In order to be successful, several things (as expected) must be considered and must be applied. As what I had studied, in creating a business you should consider the thing love, you must find what you love that’s what they always say. An effective way to compete with others is by putting your interest as the core of the business. In this way, you will be inspired due to it’s what you really want. Then get serious, putting up a business is not a game to play, it is a serious matter that involves time, money and effort. It is a masterpiece that you must monitor to settle the things up. You must grow your network, do not just stay on the people that you were comfortable, but instead try to reach out and approach those people that you meet and especially those individuals that you are interested at. Grow and expand your circle, when you have lots of connections, having someone to call to is not a problem anymore. And most of all is to know your options, makeup your mind, settle first the things that you want, put them all in a sequence, organize your thoughts and plan it well; never aim for the money but instead aim for a great development for money will come after it.Some of the businesses that I had mentioned had their natures, and these natures are clearly seen based on the services that they give to the clients. Although some of these businesses are not that concrete, still they are exempted for the reason that they are just starting, and hoping as those small businesses rise are grows, several businesses will follow them (not specifically copying them, but instead by making their own versions) and would make Davao a center of the growing technology. So how do these businesses help and could contribute in the growth of our society? As these technopreneurial businesses are growing and would end up to and IT park, all those professionals (who had been fighting for their fate at somewhere out there) will have the options to stay here and focus on the progression of the city; when these businesses would bloom, several investors would be running here and putting up there investments, which literally means more money to us, and more jobs to come. And all of the good things will continue. So see how could it help our society and fellowmen?

Couple of days ago, I had been walking outside the school territories and as I had, I had found out that these businesses had a good taste of place. Perfect places to start such kind of businesses, for there are lots of students who will need their services. Going back to the years where technology is not a part of the business, only fast food chains or what they call as carenderias surrounds the school as a business which caters services to students. Now, can you even imagine the fast growth of the technology? Wherein it was applied to different kinds of businesses, and it is always involve in their all sessions and operations. I was wandering around the Victoria Plaza mall, and just witnessed several technopreneurial businesses, such as arcades, Globe (internet provider), Kodak (photo developer), and even banks had been using technologies, they were using computers and databases to generate their operations. And last Saturday, I went to the Nccc mall for some reasons, a job fare was held at there car park and at the ground floor, and I attended that event. After that event I took a little walk for my article and been wandering around the mall. I had noticed again several businesses in the mall (as expected for it was a mall, it should contain several business that resides there) besides the department store wherein clothes and foods are located, there are the technopreneurial businesses that been residing in each floor of the mall, amazing isn’t it? How the mall was merely occupied by several technopreneurial businesses? There are stores which caters several services with the use of technology. There are stores which sell machines such as desktop computers, laptops, printers and scanners, different units of phones and digital cameras. And one thing had caught my attention; they had used the event to showcase to the people their products. They had been on a sale (10 to 15% off rate) just to caught the attention of the costumers. How creative and wise isn’t it? Several customers had been going in and out of their shop, some had purchased laptops with an i3 to i5 processors, because it is for sale and they could afford it rather than the real price which is at a higher rate. These businesses could easily adjust the price of their products for the costumers, and they are not even afraid to give huge price offs. These was early discussed in our subject, that even if they had in an 80% sale price off, they would still take a credit out of it. Cool! And to add some more, there are also some techno shops I had missed. They are the Spas and beauty makeover salons which also use machines to serve their valued clients, besides the chemical they are using; they also use several machines to treat the costumers. And there is also the music shop, which basically use the technology to showcase their music. To play the different kinds of music such as: Jazz, Rock, Classic, Pop and RNB. Without these technologies, could you even make a tape or a disk play? Don’t think so. As you can see, most of these businesses are a bit common to us, the shops, the stores, the centers. I wish I could have seen even just a little business with a unique nature and way of delivering them to their valuable clients. But even if these businesses are not that unique at all, they vary in their strategic styles of serving their costumers, to make people engage with their business and earn a sale. There is they called as Incubators, this is where business ideas are being developed, funded and started. And when these businesses grow and mature, they are released off the incubator and deployed to stand on its own feet. It is a good way of helping the startups grows, and if the business does not mature in maybe exactly two years, it will be forced to stop because the idea didn’t worked well. Good thing there are these incubators to help! As you can surf through the net, you could see several pages that are willing to help startups in the field of technopreneurial businesses; their aim is to assist technopreneurs with business ideas and technology of reasonable merit by providing you with strategic resources to turn your ideas into viable businesses, to a level that is attractive to institutional investors. They provide incubations for startups, and if ever some of the readers might have some interest on it, here is the URL of the said page:

http://www.technopreneurdevelopment.net.my/cms/General.asp?whichfile=Sumbit&ProductID=20944&CatID

To Start the task of Discovering a Business Idea, here is my idea which came out of no where:

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With these informations, I had come up with an idea of why not having my own technopreneurial business which is in an internet based? All of the said businesses I had mentioned have there own places and it is hard to compete with them. I was inspired of the things I had heard during the DEVCON conference (that they are focused on cool internet progressions), I was thinking about why not try indulging in blogs or some internet stuffs.

The next thing I had come up is about an Online shop. Individual buyers had found it too hassles to go outside and seek for a certain item, and when they get there they are forced to get the priority cards for them to be entertained. Until then, they must wait for there numbers to be called and as they bought an item they must line through the cashier to pay the amount of the item. Even I myself find it too tiring, and via this online shop, they could just surf the site for the item they were looking (but in a given limited time to ensure the flow of the system), and pay it through the net (example: Paypal).

Lastly I had been on a walk and found out that several fastfood chains takes time to cook a certain viand or meal in cases that there are too many costumers and there’s nothing left in the food warmer. I had come up with an idea of making a fast cooker, with its special components it could cook a food faster than its normal time, and it could ensure the tenderness of that certain food.

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So as I was saying, technopreneurial businesses could contribute a lot to the development of our society. Their importances are:

• Employment creation – because of the growing technology and businesses, people had given their chance to be employed and have definite earnings. It is on them on how they will make use of the businesses, whether they would grab the opportunity and land a job, or to stay out in the street begging for coins.
• Local resources
• Decentralization and diversification of business
• Promotion of technology – Philippines is always delayed in terms of technology. Several gadgets are introduced to the other countries but it will come by the Philippines couple of years after (5 or more years later)! And by putting up several technopreneur ideas, we might come up being so much oriented in the evolving technology.
• Capital formation
We are discussing the Environment Mastery (a part of the SEED model) and I haven’t even introduced that. Having serendipity walks is a part of the environment mastery. Environment mastery is about generating business ideas and seeking opportunities out from his or her environment through serendipity walks, crises, and trends. There is always a business idea that can be generated in between a crisis. True! If only you are creative enough to see and resolve the problem, then you can generate one. Again let me define an entrepreneur against a technopreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who engages in a business venture and willing to take the risk in order to gain profit; any business for that matter. Technopreneur, on the other hand, is specialized into high-tech and innovative business e.g. web technologies, gadgets, medicine and automation solutions. Technopreneurship is the act on engaging into technoprenuer. A technopreneur is a person who is into innovative technology venture by enhancing or by developing new tech products and/or services. It starts from a good idea, develop this idea into an opportunity, and then commercialize it with a good business model.

An environment-mastered person could:

• Understands the industry he/she is in – in order to make it more effective, an individual must know each layers of the industry. He or she must know the specific things that are needed to be considered to commit great progress.
• Sees the opportunities, not the problems - makes use of the problems to see the opportunities despite of crisis. Making the problems as his or her source of business ideas.
• Is on top of the situation instead of being under the situation - is innovative and a good leader who could manage any situations.
• Is an organization/industry innovator and strategist – being strategic to come up with a better idea that could give a good service to its clients.

This is a young country which strives itself to rise from debts, lets not waste the time by indulging to corruptions and dishonored operations. Let’s help our nation to build its way to the top. Let be innovative and strive hard together to reach success.