Assignment 2

 Reflections/Insights on your Personal Traits Test


Last August 14, 2010, we conducted a test to measure our personal traits when it comes to business. If we do possess the personalities which will be useful to us in some cases if we really decided to enter the world of being a businessman. Because on the previous days and because our subject was about technopreneur, we tackled all about “How to handle a business?”, “What are the characteristics must an effective TECHNOPRENEUR have?”
”Self Mastery, Environment Mastery”. Things like this is a pointers on us which will be an arsenal to us on the time we will be have decisions to make when we will enter to this field. And fortunately, I got a result which is not a shame to share. My result was “Somewhat entrepreneurial”. The second rank on the result.

To start with my reflection and insights on the result given to us, there’s just a thing that comes in my mind when I was reading the article your reflections/insights on your personal traits test that our instructor given to us. The thing was, “when was the last time a thought of being a technopreneur?”, or “Did I even think that I will be one on the first place?”. Because honestly, the first dream that I want when I was a kid was being a nurse. Then all of those dreams were obliterated when I entered college and started to have the knowledge of being an information technology student. I began asking myself again. When did I decided to throw my first dream and started to begin a new one. Then I reminisce and think. And says: “maybe change is the only constant here in the world, that when the time you got matured and think of the fact and how to face the reality. You will know that it’s better to fold my dream and wait for a nice card and grab it to be successful.” Just like the great Bill Gates who is also a poker player, a very good player who always thinks of how to use his cards to win in every game he encountered and even use his enemies on his success and play with them like he is a comrade on bringing the NBI down which what Steve Jobs thinks as the ultimate enemy on their era. But we all know that life is also like a game which you will make decisions. If you do this what will be the outcome. Good or bad outcome it will depend on how you handle or play your card. But technology and information here is the real deal why every people can be an entrepreneur or technopreneur. Because everything you want to know. You can get it, as simple as going to the library and finding the right book. Just by sitting and being patient. You can get everything you want because of the information in the internet and the technology computers. Technology and entrepreneurial skills are driving many economies to prosperity. The most famous of them all is, Bill Gates, just what I mentioned earlier who makes Microsoft a household name all over the world. Steve Jobs – the one who Bill Gates used on his success during their time. A well known for his innovations. iPod - most carried gadget by young population. Look at the success of Google - brain child of Sergey Brin and Larry Page.And technology is a term referred to the application of science use to achieve commercial and industrial objectives, electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group while entrepreneur is a person who is engaged in an enterprise, venture, ideas that accepts acceptability of the outcome. Therefore, technopreneur is a person who venture uses technology as a subject for their business ideas. The role of a technopreneur is to identify a market strategy involving technology and locate the resources needed to accomplish an outcome that would allow the business to notice opportunity that may help the venture to grow. This person behind a firm could demonstrate the quality as a leader and choosing the best manager for the firm. Knowing the people working for you is the best way to choose the one that fits for the job. Technology nowadays is fast developing and is used in many ways to it full functionality, that persuade entrepreneurs to engage with technology and the business, because of this fact that technology emerges with the trend of today’s needs, technopreneur does a lot of new strategy for the business grow and discover more opportunities for the developing industry. If one has decided to be a technopreneur and start his venture, this would help to generate employment as the business grows, it would require positions that may take by people and these people may also start their business venture and be a technopreneur themselves.There are a lot of factor to be consider but one of the most important is the idea that makes you to be a technopreneur, of course you won’t be able to start if you don’t have any business idea to start with. Even a simple plan could be a good start in planning your own business, it doesn’t need to be big, just start it small and make it big. On how to make it big depends on you. Just like what I said, it depends on how you hold your cards and played against your enemies. Because even if you had the worst cards on your hand but if you played it well, use it against your enemies because as we all know that everywhere. Even our closest friends can be an enemy or a threat to your success. Even yourself, can be a considered as a threat because if you don’t believe in yourself and think that you can’t do anything then you will stay like that forever. Maybe the keys here is always think a million or even billion times before having decisions in life because you can never have it back if you already done it. There is nothing as rewind in this world wherein you can change the past. So, think well, play you cards well and don’t give a 100% trust to anyone. Aside from trusting anyone. I can also say that a problem that may intrude in my life makes me a better person also. People merely say that problems of life mold every individual. When I encounter problem, it really makes me feel bad especially that I’m far from my family. Some these problems includes: failures at school, stress and pressures in submitting requirements, dealing with other people and etc. Long before my family is the one who comfort me whenever I’m down. They are the one who encourage me to pursue life despite of its difficulties. I easily get affected whenever problems interfere on me but as time goes by, I’ve learned to handle such weakness of mine. I now take problem as a gift from up above that could make me a better person. Now that I’m a grown up person, I’m glad to say that I have that strong foundation as an individual towards facing problems. In the personality test, I’ve encountered a question that deals with money. A financial difficulty is really one of the factors that affect the life of every individual. As what other people always say: “money makes the world go round”. This difficulty is not new to me. I always encounter this especially that I’m a student. There are times that my allowance for the week is delayed, and so I have to be wise in spending my money or even think of how to earn one. In business, it always involves money. Regarding the personality test, I’ve encountered scenarios that engage money or being rich someday. As an individual I always have that thought of being rich someday. The hard workings of my parents are my inspiration towards this dream. I always have that vision that someday I could be able to give my parents the luxury of life in return of the goodness and strivings they’ve done just make me an educated person. I want to be a technopreneur someday and manage my own business. I want to have a big house where my family could live comfortably. I want to travel to places I haven’t gone through. These are but some of my aspirations in life. To accept mistakes and do things even better, this statement is one of the choices I have encountered in the personality test. I always have that hard time in making decisions because I am afraid of doing mistake. At school, I usually do not engage myself to responsibility, like being a leader in a group and etc. I’m anxious that if in case that it will not go well, they will blame me for the decisions I have mistakenly chosen. In class recitation, even if I know the answer I don’t have the courage too outburst my idea because it might be wrong and my classmates might just laugh at me. Currently, I’m working hard to change this attitude of mine. As a technopreneur, I should be a risk taker.


Somewhat entrepreneurial is not a bad result which made me think now that this time I can be a good technopreneur someday or even at this moment because if I do possess the characteristics of becoming one then why done try to be one. Risking just for the sake of going to the top or becoming a successful person. Risk taking is not an easy situation. Because your somewhat putting your life or depending your life into a serious scenario wherein you will at least have two possible answer which was to be fail or success on it. But being a risk taker is what Jobs also possess on succession on being a technoprenuer. He even risk his product without having the insurance successful rate outcome. Like what he did on the local electronics equipment retailer. Risking, just by having an instinct of the people to come and show to them and have interest on their product. An technoprenuer needs a lot of factors to contribute to be call one. Because you must possess a lot of characteristics to be an effective one. Though, we can say that maybe almost all of us can be an entreprenuer but only a few has given the talents of possessing the characteristics of an technoprenuer as i can say because being an technoprenuer needs a lot of effort on building those characteristics to be near on calling a better technoprenuer. Actually, as I heard about technoprenuership the first thing that came to my mind was about having business through the use of technology but though it was my first attendance in the class on the second meeting because i was on the hospital during the first meeting and we yet in the first quarter of the semester. I though technoprenuer is just another uninteresting subject during the first to third meeting. But, as we go along our discussion. I just realize what can a technoprenuer affects the society and also had a big role on helping the country on raising up on crisis because through this, you can be an employer and start a business and have job opportunities to your people. And it's a big help to our roaring society.



I think that I at least possess the characteristics of being a technopreneur. Which make me think on the future of becoming one. And be an employer rather than an employee. Starting a business and lead my employees well. Make my ideas a reality and not just stock on my brain. And somewhat I realized that I can be a good technopreneur because I know what are the things most the market needs nowadays I guess and also I can managed how to handle my employees because me myself can adjust to anything and know the feeling when people control you. Though I have still a long way to go. But I know someday I can be a successful person and be known not only national but international as well. But above all this, I always want to give emphasis to this thing. Play your cards well, and think a million times because their no such thing as rewind when you want to change the past.