Lesson 3 (Technopreneurship)

Assignment for next meeting by Group (3 members per group)

1.    Identify sample business for each definition (Part2)

3 Examples of each definition. Explain Why.

2.    Identify at least 6 Successful Technopreneurs not from Philippines.

3.    Two successful Pinoy Technopreneur.

Ø  Dado Banatao

Ø  Winston Damarillo

                    (Create a PowerPoint presentation and Documentation.)

    Answers:

Diosdado P. Banatao

v  More popularly known by his nickname “Dado”

v  Malabbac, Iguig, Cagayan  Valley ,Philippines

           May 23, 1946 (age 66)

v  The Filipino Bill Gates and The Father of the Semi-conductor

v   Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering at Mapúa Institute of Technology

v   Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University

v   A Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry.

v   A veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist of Silicon Valley (— home of the high-tech revolution)

Business

v  Founder & Managing Partner of Tall wood Venture Capital, CEO of  Ikanos Communications ,Chairman of Philippine Development Foundation

v  He co-founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron

Ø  1984

v  Banatao and his business partner Francis Siu, founded a high-technology company, Mostron

•        Mostron was launched as a manufacturer of motherboards.

Ø  1985

v   he co-founded Chips and Technologies (C & T)

•       The company developed system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT

Ø  1 989

v  Banatao launched his third start-up company, S3 Graphics, with Yara in Santa Clara, California.

•        S3 focused on enhancing the graphic capabilities in personal computers by using a graphic accelerator chip.

•          S3 was then considered as the third most profitable technology company in the world when it went public having an IPO worth of US$30 million.

Ø  1996

The company became the leader of the graphic-chips market, beating a strong competitor, Cirrus Logic, Inc.. In the same year, Chips & Technologies was sold to Intel for about $300 million making Banatao richer

Ø  2000

v   He decided to start-up his own venture capital firm named Tallwood Venture Capital with a capital of US$300 million.

•        Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms.

Ø   2010

v  Dado Banatao became Ikanos Communications' CEO after Michael Gulett resigned as the company's CEO and President.

v  (TODAY) He invests, oversees, and sells several companies that include :

q  Cyras Systems acquired by Ciena

q   Newport Communications acquired by Broadcom

q   Acclaim Communications acquired by Level One

q  Stream Machines acquired by Cirrus Logic

Marvell Technology Group and New Moo software

Winston Damarillo

       v    February 16, 1970 (age 42)

       v   Bohol, Philippines. 

        v   A Bachelors of Science  in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the De La Salle    University

       v   Damarillo is a Chinese-Filipino

       v   Modern Filipino Technopreneur

       v  The CEO and co-founder of Morph Labs .

     q   the world's leading provider of converged dynamic infrastructure for cloud computing

     v   Winston is also the co-founder and chairman of the board of directors for:

     q   Exist Global an enterprise software development company,

     q   MaestroDev,a collaborative software development automation company.

     v  Young Global Leader.

     v  CEO of Morph Labs. (Asia’s Top 100 Tech Companies)

     q   Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms in  Southern California

    v  Open Source models

    v  Start Up Formation/Management

     v  Venture Financing, M&A & Global IT Entrepreneurship

     v  He starts his own business Global Gateway Innovation Exchange (G2iX), which focuses on building start-up technology companies.

     v   Founded Gluecode Software Inc., which he sold to IBM in 2005.

     v   Member of the Board and International Marketing Director, Philippine Software Industry Association. Trustee, Ayala Foundation USA, an organization active in social development initiatives.

    Ø  2011

    v  Winston was selected as a Commissioner in the TechAmerica Foundation Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in the U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2)/State and Local Government (SLG)

    Ø  2010

     v  He is one of the Young Global Leader honorees and a participant of the World Economic Forum. He is a trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation