ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ENTREPRENEURS AND THEIR LIFE HOW TO BECOME SUCCESS by: Piechan Min
Stpehen Wozniak a.k.a “Woz”
AMERICAN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER
His Early life

 He is a Polish-American.
 His birthday is on August 11, 1950 (San Jose California).
 His parents…. Francis Jacob “Jerry” Wozniak and Margaret Louise Wozniak.
 Graduated from Homestead High School (1968).
 He attended University of Colorado for 1 year (1968-69).
 Went in California for local community college from University of California,
Barkley (1971) made a blue box…
 He was employed in Hewlett-Packard as where he designed calculators.
Blue Box (1971)
He finally meet Steve Job…

 By their Friend name Fernandez, Wozniak was introduced to Jobs who was also working in
Hewlett-Packard for a summer job where Job was working on mainframe computer.
 In 1973, Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos,
California.[25] He was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video
game Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100
(equivalent to $564 in 2018) for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had
little knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee
evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Wozniak reduced
the number of chips by 50, by using RAM for the brick representation. Too complex to be
fully comprehended at the time, the fact that this prototype also had no scoring or coin
mechanisms meant Woz's prototype could not be used. Jobs was paid the full bonus
regardless. Jobs told Wozniak that Atari gave them only $700 and that Wozniak's share was
thus $350 (equivalent to $1,975 in 2018).[26][1](pp147–148, 180) Wozniak did not learn about the
actual $5,000 bonus (equivalent to $28,220 in 2018) until ten years later, but said that if Jobs
had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to
him.
The creation of Apple

 In 1975, Wozniak began designing and developing the computer that

would eventually make him famous, the Apple I. On June 29 of that year,
he tested his first working prototype, displaying a few letters and running
sample programs. It was the first time in history that a character displayed
on a TV screen was generated by a home computer.[1] With the Apple I, he
and Jobs were largely working to impress other members of the Palo Alto-
based Homebrew Computer Club, a local group of electronics hobbyists
interested in computing. The Club was one of several key centers which
established the home hobbyist era, essentially creating the microcomputer
industry over the next few decades. Unlike other Homebrew designs, the
Apple had an easy-to-achieve video capability that drew a crowd when it
was unveiled.
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 1976 where Woz completed the design with Apply 1 and HP denied by the
company on His offer 5 different occasions.
 Jobs instead had the idea to sell the Apple I with Wozniak as a fully
assembled printed circuit board. Wozniak, at first skeptical.
 And sell their possessions… (Woz’s Calculator and even Job’s Volkswagen
van) and gain $1,300.
 And their apartment and bedroom was filled with monitors… They sell
apple 1 for $666.66.
 They sell 50 units to Paul Teller and build their computer shop named “Byte
Shop”.
Job and Wozniak
BYTE SHOP.
The born of Apple II

 On April 1, 1976 Woz and Job formed Apple computer along administrative
supervisor Ronald Wayne.
 Woz resigned H.P
 The Apple I is similar to Altair 8080 (Ed Roberts in August 1975).
 Woz accidentally created colors using $1 chip.
 Woz and Job got on an argument about releasing Apple II
 And in the year 1977 the apple II was born and introduce to west coast
computer fair, It became one of the first highly successful mass-produced
personal computers in the world.
 1980 they become millionaires.
Apple II
Apple III was born.

 1980 was Apple III was born.

 It is not successful unlike the Apple II.
 According to Wozniak, the Apple III "had 100 percent hardware failures",
and that the primary reason for these failures was that the system was
designed by Apple's marketing department, unlike Apple's previous
engineering-driven projects.
Plane accident.

 On February 7, 1981, the Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC which Wozniak was piloting
crashed soon after takeoff from the Sky Park Airport in Scotts Valley, California.
The plane stalled while climbing, then bounced down the runway, broke
through two fences, and crashed into an embankment. Wozniak and his three
passengers—then-fiancée Candice Clark, her brother Jack Clark, and his
girlfriend, Janet Valleau were injured. Wozniak sustained severe face and head
injuries, including losing a tooth, and also suffered for the following five weeks
from anterograde amnesia, the inability to create new memories. He had no
memory of the crash, and did not remember his name while in the hospital or
the things he did after he was released. He would later state that Apple II
computer games are what helped him regain his memory. The National
Transportation Safety Board investigation report cited premature liftoff and pilot
inexperience as probable causes of the crash.
 Wozniak did not immediately return to Apple after recovering from the airplane
crash, seeing it as a good reason to leave.
U.S FESTIVALS

 In May 1982 and 1983, Wozniak, with help from professional concert
promoter Bill Graham, founded and sponsored two US Festivals to
celebrate evolving technologies; they ended up as a technology
exposition and a rock festival as a combination of music, computers,
television and people. After losing several million dollars on the 1982.
 he stated that unless the 1983 event turned a profit, he would end his
involvement with rock festivals and get back to designing computers. Later
that year, Wozniak returned to Apple product development, desiring no
more of a role than that of an engineer and a motivational factor for the
Apple workforce.
Continuation…..

 Wozniak returned to Apple in 1982, though he resisted efforts to involve him in

management. He finally retired as an active employee in 1985, immediately
after being awarded, along with Jobs, a National Medal of Technology by U.S.
Pres. Ronald W. Reagan. Wozniak spent the ensuing decades engaged in
philanthropic causes, especially involving the education of children, and in
volunteer work teaching computer enrichment classes to preteens.
 Although Wozniak was semiretired after leaving Apple, he kept up with the
computing world by funding various business ventures and occasionally serving
as an adviser or board member for different companies. In 2009 he became the
chief scientist at Fusion-Io, an American company that produces high-capacity,
solid-state storage devices. Wozniak was serving on the company’s board of
directors when he decided to become a full-time employee. After Fusion-Io was
sold to SanDisk in 2014, Wozniak left the company to become chief scientist
at Primary Data, which was involved in data virtualization; that business shut
down in 2018.
 “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your
reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking
and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I
promise.”
― Steve Wozniak
Reference

 Https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Gary-Wozniak
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3767.Steve_Wozniak
Socorro Ramos
Owner of National bookstore
Maria Socorro Ramos a.k.a “Nanay Coring”
NANAY CORING. From being a hardworking young girl, to being a successful
entrepreneur.
Her Biography

 She was born in the year 1923 in September 23rd.

 In Sta. Isabel, Laguna.
 She is a helper of her grandmother in their fruit stall in local public market
their home province.
 Life is hard for her mother and for her so they went to Manila to find better
opportunities.
 She attended public school and attended may summer jobs, from
wrapping bubble gums to sewing buttons on shirts.
 After high school, her family doesn’t have enough money to send her to
college so in the early age of 18 she applied for a sales lady in a bookstore.
Continuation….

 The one of the branches Goodwill bookstore in Ermita where the owner is
her brother Manuel.
 She was Impressed with her brother’s skills and her brother’s skills. And her
brother entrusted her about his business.
 And here she also met her love of her life Jose.
 They also build her own bookstore inside Ermita.
 1940 a strict censorship on books was implemented. Nanay Coring had to
put the books away and resort to selling soap, candies, and slippers. After
the war, the whole of Escolta was burned down. This did not dampen
Nanay Coring and Jose’s souls. They opened another small store. This time,
they sold the books they had previously put away and whisky.
 It is in the same store that Ms. Cancio met her husband Jose Ramos, who
happens to be Manuel’s brother-in-law. Maria’s parents were against their
relationship because she was only 18 that time; she was forced to go back
in Laguna, and was barred from seeing Jose. Defying her parents’
disapproval, and with mere 11 pesos in her possession, Maria decided to go
back to Manila and married Jose in 1940. Her family did not talk to her for
quite some time, but their fury subsided when Maria gave birth to her twin
babies Alfredo and Benjamin.
Her Family.
Jose and Nanay Coring in their Rizal
Ave. Branch.
 On the same year, the couple decided to open their own store. Maria and
Jose started selling books, GI novels, and supplies. The store’s name was
Socorro’s idea after she would often see the word “National” stamped on
cash registers, which is quite fitting for it is considered as the pioneer in
providing textbooks, novels, and other school and office needs of the
Filipinos.
 After Japanese invasion censorship about selling soap imposed.
 After the war they looked for a barong-barong and sell other and school
supplies they have done a house-to-house offering.

The business was going smoothly until Typhoon Gene destroyed their house
and their business in 1948. But the couple was determined to recover and
continued to work hard.
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 Until they bring back and recover everything.

 All the hard work paid off because they were able to construct a two-story
building that became their store for many years.
 The success of National Bookstore continued, the business expanded and
has now branches across the country with more than 2,500 employees.
Maria Socorro Cancio Ramos is now way past her 90’s, hence it’s the
younger ones who are managing the small empire. Nanay Coring remains
as a great inspiration to all those who struggle, for she is the epitome of
surviving against all odds.
 “Work hard, very hard. There is no express
elevator to success – you have to climb the
stairs.”- Nanay Coring
Reference.

 http://primer.com.ph/business/2016/01/06/socorro-ramos-the-woman-
behind-national-bookstore/
 http://happynoy.blogspot.com/2016/07/success-story-nanay-coring-and-
national-bookstore.html
 http://happynoy.blogspot.com/2016/07/success-story-nanay-coring-and-
national-bookstore.html