24 Steps to a Successful Startup

If the pace, abruptness, and unpredictability of change during the global pandemic has you hoping for a chance to catch your breath, MIT Sloan Professor of the Practice Bill Aulet has a word of caution. “The world never will be slower than it is today,” he says. “That’s a fundamental state of affairs that entrepreneurs must embrace if they are to thrive in the midst of—and most certainly beyond—this current global crisis.”

Over the past 12 months, I’ve read a few great books on unrelated topics that are actually about entrepreneurship. Two books that fit this category that immediately come to mind for me are...

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We know there is no shortage of reasons to apply the Disciplined Entrepreneurship (DE) framework for various innovation-driven processes both for established or under-development organizations or to fit the needs of the ready to go, exploratory and corporate entrepreneurs. While there is a growing body of evidence regarding the value of DE and its impact, little is known about its potential application as an industry policymaking framework and an engagement strategy that can inform strategic…

Last month, I had the exciting opportunity to host the CFOs from Zoom, Peloton, and Grubhub at the MIT CFO Summit and the CFO Leadership Council Conferences. This was a great chance to talk directly with leaders in some of the real rocket ships in this COVID crisis. These are three poster examples of companies who have seen effectively managed the dramatic market shifts to more digitalization as was highlighted on the front page of The Wall Street Journal at the same time. Let me summarize six…

Today, the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) named Bill Aulet its Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year during its 2021 Virtual Conference...

It was a year that tested us and made us stronger in the end. With that perspective, what were our favorite articles of this past year on this web site? Each of us probably has our different favorites because of our individual perspectives and interests but it is interesting to see what the top ten were from the consolidated “voting”: ...

An in-depth overview of these methodologies reveals a hidden truth: none of them is universally valid. There is no single Startup Bible that guarantees redemption from uncertainty and the perilous journey of a new venture. Each of them focuses on very different aspects of a startup and the key lies in how to use them TOGETHER. Let the practitioners argue about which is best, and let us reap the benefits of smartly combining them for our purposes.

Berlin is a city that has always intrigued me. When I graduated from college and had just played a season of pro basketball (don’t be fooled, the pay was not great but I did get paid to play basketball so I am not complaining) in England, I headed to the European continent to explore. I had never been so far from home before. As I hitch hiked across Europe, I headed to Berlin which was then behind the Iron Curtin, meaning in was in the middle of communist Eastern Germany. That experience blew…