Month: March 2019

This past week (March 20-22), I had a full immersion into the Paris entrepreneurial scene. It was highly energizing and eye-opening since my last visit. My previous visits (over two years ago now), had been quick visits to “City of Lights” – so called because it was one of the first cities to have lights due to early adoption of electricity. This early adopter mentality strangely did not apply to entrepreneurship or a translation of the first Disciplined Entrepreneurship book. It was surprising…

On March 16th and 17th, I had the good fortune to run a two-day seminar on “Introduction to Disciplined Entrepreneurship” at the University of Luxembourg. In the process of this and the following Monday, I had a chance to directly experience what was happening with entrepreneurship in the Grand Duchy of 600,000 inhabitants, or more specifically, in its dominant city, the City of Luxembourg.  These types of experiences always generate interesting data points to refine my worldview of…

When I heard the news that GE is considering breaking itself up into smaller units, I was overcome with sadness. I started my career at IBM in the early 1980s and saw that company brought low, and now a similar scenario is playing out with another venerable firm.

Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, and Bill Gurley have impressed me on how they write so often (and there are many others). In discussing it with them, they say it really helps them process thoughts, events, and information as well as forcing them to continue to push them forward to be innovative. I have publicly applauded them and encouraged others to do the same but not done it myself.

I have had the great honor and fortune to teach entrepreneurship for over a decade at MIT, and it has been a journey of continuous learning and improvement. While I could write books on what I have learned about how to teach entrepreneurship, here is a selection of 13 key lessons learned that I encourage you to consider incorporating into your teaching strategies.

Bill Aulet is in Europe in spring 2019 to launch the new editions of the Disciplined Entrepreneurship books in French and Italian. Meet him in Luxembourg, Paris, Rome, Milan or Bologna.