Editor’s note: This article was first published in December 2010, while Steve Jobs was running Apple, and it speaks of him in the present tense. He stepped down as CEO in August 2011 and died in October 2011.
Of all the entrepreneurs we could hold up as examples, I always like to dwell on Steve Jobs, especially since I heard the speech he gave at Stanford University. Why has Steve Jobs been so successful? Very simple: because he focused on looking for success, and he has a special talent for seeing business opportunities.
Without stirring up the debate about whether Windows was a plagiarised copy by Bill Gates any further, it is clear that Steve was the first to design the first personal computer when nobody believed in the project. Now Steve Jobs is in the news again, as the iPad has made it into the 10 best inventions of the year.
The tablet PC (the iPad) was an idea that several companies had dropped because they saw no future for it in the market. Today this invention has drawn everyone’s attention thanks to its success all over the world, precisely because, as we said, it had been written off completely.
Steve stayed focused, just as Donald Trump advises, until today there are more than 40 million units of this “portable tablet”. Apple, once again with Steve Jobs at the helm, is currently working on the design of a new iPad made of carbon fibre and plastic.
Congratulations once again, Steve!
Further reading
- Donald Trump: the mindset of an entrepreneur
- How to be a successful entrepreneur, based on Steve Jobs
- Common mistakes made by Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs
- Differences between Spanish-speaking and American entrepreneurs
Featured image: matt buchanan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
