Steve Jobs & Apple Inc.

Increasingly creative are nowadays’ human beings due to the advanced technology and science all over the world and more and more brave are people to put forward their own exclusive opinion at the first place and later put it into practice, currently it can be heard with a higher and higher frequency that there are more and more successful examples of self entrepreneurship. Also, it has now formed a tendency that others would like to know how those people can conduct successful entrepreneurship and what on earth their essence of success lies in so that they can as well succeed in carrying out their own career. Therefore the following will be the illustration of my favorite entrepreneur or tycoon, Steve Jobs and how he established his product and created the message for his own company, Apple Inc. During the process of illustrating, I will elaborate on my own personal insights as to what lessons I have learned and how I can apply them to my real life in order to benefit myself as much as possible. It is hoped that others can get something useful from within as well so as to make this research entrepreneur essay be played to its full for the complete realization of its value.

Steve Jobs, born on February 24, 1955 in California, was an American inventor, entrepreneur as well as the co-founder of Apple Inc who had re-invented his own field, which has afterwards contributed more or less to his final success. He was considered as an iconic figure in the computer industry and the entertainment industry and he had individually experienced the ups and downs of the Apple Inc. for several years, during which he was all the time standing by it and tried his own best to help it. Or maybe it can be put in another way that he had really played a critical role in the development of the company Apple Inc and he did have significant influence to the general condition of it. When he was in office, Apple Inc. had subsequently released a series of electronic products that have been popular in the whole globe, including Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and so on.

There is no doubt that the constant turning up of those products can profoundly change the communications, entertainment and lifestyle in modern days, which can from another perspective be justified for the great popularity and wide welcome of human beings toward it. So it can be easy for us to understand why in recent years, more and more people can not live without products branded Apple and those users all agree that products branded Apple are right what they need and Apple products have at the same time satisfied their needs and requirements for electronic products.

The rationale why Steve Jobs can make such great contribution to the development of the company Apple Inc is that he had dealt perfectly with many critical issues in his life span. Blankly speaking, to tackle various critical issues to the best of his ability has to a certain degree laid a solid foundation for his later achievements step by step. To put it more specifically, on April 1st, 1976, he signed a contract and he decided to set up a computer company. The same month one year later, he demonstrated an Apple II model in the first American computer exhibition. Later in the year of 1997, his company launched iMac whose innovative shell with a transparent color had resulted in the product’s being very marketable. And it is recorded that the appearance of iMac had made his company pass the financial crisis so that it can all the time keep developing smoothly in approaching days. On August 24th, 2011, he submitted the application for resignation to Apple’s board of directors as was regarded as the end of his taking office in Apple Inc. It is a pity to say that he died of mammary cancer on October 5th, 2011 at the age of 56. His death at an early age is actually a great loss for the development of Apple Inc. and it has in the meantime exerted impacts on human beings as they hold that they can not own the best Apple-branded products any more without the participation of him in the production of Apple products.

In our common sense, we will all hold that Steve Jobs may as well perform prominently in his study life and his parents may also be really outstanding in that they can nurture such a great mind as we are to a large extent awed by his splendid achievements. However, what is out of our expectation is that he was abandoned by his parents when he was just born and luckily he was adopted by a kind-hearted couple. It is described that “Steve Jobs knew from an early age that he was adopted. ‘My parents were very open with me about that,’ he recalled. (Isaacson, Walter. 2011. Chapter One)” What matters for his later success in his career is that he was all the time under the influence from his neighbors as are almost the staffs in Hewlett-Packard Development Company so that he seemed to show strong interest in electronics since his early childhood. That is to say, his biology parents did not concern much about his success and they had taken no effect toward his shaping. So we can say that the fact whether his biology parents are outstanding or not does not have impact toward his success at all and his success is the result of his personal efforts all the time. And as for his study, he chose to suspend his schooling without losing his status as a student when he was nineteen due to the economic factor and he became an employee in the society.

At that time, he began his life of working while studying computer by himself out of his great enthusiasm toward it and such period was simply a period that helped lead to his final success in that he often disregarded meal times and went without sleep. He dreamed of owning a computer, but the computers sold in the market all tend to be commercial and they were produced bulkily. And what can not be neglected is that many people can not afford one because it is extremely expensive. Therefore he decided to develop it on his own and he held that it would certainly be an opportunity for him to make a fortune in that his dream of owning a computer will be others’ dream as well. Not long after, he signed a contract with his friends and they set up a computer company with the funds being raised by selling their own worthy goods. In this way, their company began to be on the track and it was in the process of gradual development. It can not be doubted that the former period of development was full of difficulties and it did not have many customers. But fortunately, their innovative and constant updating of the products in order to meet customers’ changing requirements has slowly made it solve confronting problems one after another.

With the illustration of my favorite entrepreneur or tycoon, Steve Jobs and how he established his product and created the message for his own company, Apple Inc. being mentioned at length in the above, what comes next at the list is that my own personal insights as to what lessons I have learned and how I can apply them to my real life in order to benefit myself as much as possible. The most important lesson that I have learned is that the success of entrepreneurship lies in the entrepreneur’s finding the opportunity of making a fortune in the first beginning, raising funds by sparing no efforts in order to start the implementation process afterwards together with tackling various critical issues to the best of his ability in the whole process. Moreover, a strong interest toward the subject of entrepreneurship will matter a lot in the whole process as well in that it can be seen as a constant simulation for later carrying out the detailed plan. Only by the joint efforts of all those factors can lead to the final success of self entrepreneurship as will definitely involve risks and danger. And the failure of entrepreneurship can also be used to be taken as the counter examples so that the entrepreneurs can all avoid committing the same mistake as it.

It is hoped that all the entrepreneurs can know clearly about how to be successful in their own career and they can quickly be on the track for it so as not to lose heart in the whole process. Personally speaking, I will focus on developing my own interest in approaching days so that I can benefit most from within. And I will in the meantime learn those rare personalities of him so that I can gradually perfect myself and make an outstanding me out of myself in the near future.