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Bill Aulet
A longtime successful entrepreneur, Bill is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the world.
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The new Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated and Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics books were launched on April 2 this year.
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Trust Center Annual Report Now Available: Please Laterally Innovate (Copy) This Document!
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We are extremely proud of this document as it reminds us and shows the incredible depth and breadth of the impact our small but extraordinarily mighty team accomplished in 12 months. But it is not meant to be a "show off" document nearly as much as it is meant to be a guide or blueprint for others who want to learn from what we have done. The explicit mission of MIT is to create a body of knowledge and share that knowledge with the world so we can address the world's most pressing challenges.
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The Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Model Can be Toxic, Fortunately There are Other Models
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Great ideas regarding entrepreneurship come out of Silicon Valley. After all, it is one of the key centers of innovation-driven entrepreneurship, however, the product is often specific to that context. The entrepreneurial process should be…
delta v 2024: Everything AI, Including the Tools to Build the New Ventures, Video and Other Thoughts
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MIT delta v 2024 (the 13th cohort) is now in the books and here are all the videos of the different teams who graduated from it along with some musing about this year’s edition.
How MIT’s Entrepreneurial Finance Course Set Me on the Path to Greater Success
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Entrepreneurs must understand finance, but I didn't fully grasp its importance until I took MIT’s Entrepreneurship 104: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance. This course was my starting point, preparing me for MIT’s Innovation and…
Unleashing the Kendall Magic: A Fireside Chat with Rhie-Young Lim & Bill Aulet
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Bill Aulet discusses the profound impact of MIT's entrepreneurship boot camps, noting that participants from war-torn countries found paths to economic freedom.
Livvi: A Great TikTok Video About Your Company
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In my new Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Expanded and Updated book, the example I use to track all the steps in the book through in a continuous manner is a company that was called Bloom in the book—but has emerged as a real company now called……
The AI Cofounder: A Revolution in Entrepreneurship
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Imagine a world where every aspiring entrepreneur has a seasoned co-founder in their pocket, capable of doing 80% of the upfront R&D by creating market segmentation, crafting pricing strategies, and developing product pipelines —all in a matter of…
The Best “How to Build a Business” Book on the Planet
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With three tech start-ups under my belt and currently working on no. 4, I can honestly say this is the best “business building” book on the planet. The advice, guidance, and insights are so good, that it’s not only my “go-to” start-up bible, but…
Gen Z Entrepreneurship: Influencing or Innovating?
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As we move deeper into the 21st century, Generation Z is emerging as a force to be reckoned with in the world of entrepreneurship. Born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, Gen Zers are redefining the future of work, balancing traditional jobs…
Summer Solstice 2024: Thoughts on Many Topics
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I always find the summer solstice one of the most authentic and special days of the year. Maybe because it is the longest day of the year, which feels important, but no one makes a big deal out of it these days. For me, it is also the demarcation…
Teaching Entrepreneurship Update 2024: Theory, Practice, Tactics
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As we are now in 2024, my colleague Paul Cheek and I, believe there is another important step forward we should take that builds off all we have done so far and will get entrepreneurship education to the next level. This is the mental model of a…
