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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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EDP 2025 Insights: Even More Amazing Than Usual Because of One Key Item That Bodes Well for the Future … If Handled Correctly
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It is hard to describe MIT EDP (Entrepreneurship Development Program) to people who have not participated in it. It’s a six-day fully immersive program at MIT held in January, often in brutally cold weather, like this year. Entrepreneurs come together from dozens of regions worldwide to form a cohort of about 70-80 participants. Over six days, they have to build a company plan; each day some milestones need to be hit. The lectures in the morning provide examples of how to apply the first…
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Observations From the Just Completed MIT Exec Ed Entrepreneurship Development Program
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It is Sunday, February 5, 2023. Two weeks ago at this time, our annual January EDP kicked off IN PERSON for the first time in 3 years. We had experimented with EDP+ last June in conjunction with our MIT delta v cohort and that went well (see EDP+…
The Greatest Hits of 2022 on D-Eship.com
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Every year it is fun to look back and see what your favorite articles of the year were. Often, we have a feeling of confidence in some but there are always surprises when we look at the year-end data. This year it is no different. At a high level,…
The State of Entrepreneurship via LinkedIn Live Event December 2022 (Video or Podcast)
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Recently (December 7, 2022), MIT Exec Ed ask Paul Cheek and I to sit down and talk with the Dean of MIT Executive Education, Peter Hirst, about the current state of entrepreneurship and basically produce content that will help get people to apply to…
So Bittersweet, the End of the Semester … But ChatGPT Brings Us Back to Reality and Explains It Perfectly
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Request to ChatGPT: Write an article about how Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck could use Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Actual Response from ChatGPT: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck may be cartoon characters, but that doesn't mean they can't benefit from the…
Disciplined Entrepreneurship Helps Bring Prince William and Kate to Boston
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This past week, you have probably seen that Prince William and Princess Kate visited Boston for their big Earthshot Prize and what a week it was. President Biden and scores of others were on hand for this enormous event. The hoopla from the visit…
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Can and Should be Ethical and Humane: The Shining Example of Fred Brooks (RIP)
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Very sad to see the passing of truly one of the most impactful (and often overlooked for the magnitude of his impact) and greatest people in the history of the the computer industry, Fred Brooks, but happy to see him acknowledged with a robust…
Report from the Field & Other Thoughts: Visit to Monterrey Mexico for INCmty November 15, 2022
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This past week I took a trip to Monterrey, Mexico for the 10th Anniversary of the INCmty Festival to support the amazing Monterrey REAP Team. MIT REAP (Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program) was started by Scott Stern, Fiona Murray, Ed…
How Well is MIT Really Doing at Creating the Next Generation Entrepreneurs?
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A Critical Analysis Through the Lens of the Oct 31, 2022 Pitchbook’s Ranking of Universities Based on Entrepreneurial Output
DE Teach The Teachers (T^3) Workshop (Mexico City, Nov 17–18)
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Teach The Teachers (T^3) Workshop for Disciplined Entrepreneurship to be held Nov 17-18 in Mexico City – Seats just released to public
MIT delta v 2022 Videos Now Available… and More
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delta v Demo Day 2022 happened on September 9th in from of 1,500 energized MIT students live and thousands more online. What you all are probably most interested in is that the videos are now available for viewing at…
