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For well over 20 years, the MIT Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) has been the largest and most highly rated Executive Education program offered by MIT Sloan. Think about that for a second as it is quite an achievement. “Executives” are usually looking to take courses to help them become better leaders in big corporations and what we teach in EDP is entrepreneurship! And among all the excellent courses taught by fabulous MIT professors in MIT Sloan Executive Education's portfolio, our…

In this chapter, we will teach you how to develop a model to generate projections of your business that provides insights, meaningful projections, a potential path to greatness, and a planning tool. I have heard intelligent people say “meaningful five-year financial projections?!?! – come on! They are surely going to be wrong. How can they be meaningful?”

All people are born entrepreneurs and it is then society that slowly dilutes this and even threatens to take it away. From the beginning of time, people survived by making things, trading things or providing services to people in order to survive.

On March 10th, I returned to the Gulf Region for the first time in four years at the invitation of the UAE Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). I was not sure what to expect after such an extended time period and so many dramatic changes in the world. After a three day workshop with an extremely active group of XX entrepreneurs, I leave very encouraged.

Your challenge is to create a short SchoolHouseRock-style animated music video that can help 8-12-year-olds understand innovative entrepreneurial work.

Think of this as “Financial Literacy” which is not going to earn you a degree in finance but it will give you the fundamentals so you know how to run and keep track of your business. We will dive into these high level concepts as we move forward, especially in the modelling phase which will come next but for now, let’s just level set on the most foundational concepts and then build up from there. We will focus on operational concepts as opposed to accounting concepts for now.

It's the start of a new year, so what could be better than kicking it off with the first chapter of the upcoming book on financial literacy for founders? The only thing better than it would definitely be to get your thoughts on this new material, have you comment with thoughts and suggestions, and further share this material with others who might benefit from it, even in draft form.

People often ask me when I am going to write another book. This is a funny question because I did not intend to write the first one. It is also incredibly hard to do it and get it right. Don’t get me wrong, I am very glad I did but I only did it because I knew there was a big need for it.

The Disciplined Entrepreneurship methodology has been a foundational element to our entrepreneurship programs at Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Studio G, the largest student entrepreneurship program in New Mexico, has grown from 3 members in 2013 to more than 1,100 active ventures and 19 Studio G Sites at colleges and universities in New Mexico and Texas. In 2019, Studio G was ranked one of the Top 20 University Business Incubators in the world by UBI Global.

I sat down with Dr. Peter Hirst for a fireside talk on the current state of entrepreneurship as we transition out of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and where I think it is going in the future.