Quan Zhou

Case Study - Research in Motion

                        Mike Lizaridis is the founder of and co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM) and still an undergraduate student when he founded RIM with his friend Dough Fregin. They were friends since grade school and started doing a business when they are in high school. They have discovered how to use oscilloscope, signal generator, a computer trainer and all of this advanced equipment in their secondary level and came up to this point. It helped them to earn some extra money to pay for college.

                        RIM is the leader in wireless communications, a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. It is located at Waterloo, Ontario. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, short message service (SMS) messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications.

                        They said that studying in Canada would be great for us, because there is this education that is available to everyone at the highest level and that is really what helped us. They didn’t plan to put the company in United States because they were really decided to put it up in Canada. As an advice from them, I have learned that if you want a successful company we should pick strong students and start early because if you prolong it, you might lose them already to some other companies.

Case Study -  Marimba

Arthur van Hoff is co-founder and chief technical officer for Marimba, a market leader in the intelligent distribution and management of business software applications within enterprises and across the Internet. As Marimba's CTO, van Hoff is responsible for all technical aspects of the company's product vision.

Marimba was founded in February 1996 by four key members of Sun Microsystems' original Java development team. Marimba's technology enables the creation, distribution and management of network applications within enterprises and across the Internet.

For their first start up, they took advices from different people and that advice will not be always the best advice. It’s only their intuition tells you to do something different and that can help a lot for your business. The only thing that they can advice to us is don’t take anything with you and always go and do something else that is somewhat  more competitive even though you don't have anything like ideas, physical things or time because you already have what you needed for.

Case Study - YAHOO

                        Yahoo was an American public corporation by two young students from Stanford University namely Jerry Yang and David Filo followed by a non-founding employee Tim Brady. He was a college roommate of Yang and by this time he is getting his MBA at Harvard Business School and he contributes so many things for the start up. He was effectively the editor of Yahoo’s Site and won the portal wars because it was a good site. Yahoo provides services including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, posting and web portal, a search engine where people can easily search in just one click of a mouse. It became very popular network of websites in the world.

                        Never think quitting like Time Brady and see what he has done after all of his efforts in Yahoo and became the most popular in the web. His mixed background of business ad engineering helped him a lot from doing things. The business education gave him the confidence to know what he knew and what he didn’t know. The group were also good at correcting the problem to the extent of it could be corrected. They always solve the problems first before anything.

                        Advices that I have learned from the article, first is to know yourself, always try to do as much thinking up to get what breaking points you want to achieve from your work. Never think of quitting, because it will not help you to pursue the things you wanted to do and it might block your ways. Before joining a group, you should know where the line was and know when to quit and at what point. Always think what is going to happen in the future to be prepared and think why you were involved and motivate yourself.