24 Steps to a Successful Startup

I recently had the incredible opportunity to participate in a detailed podcast session with HBR's (Harvard Business Review) Alison Beard for her renowned Ideacast podcast. The episode is aptly titled "A Roadmap for Today's Entrepreneur," and it's currently available for listening.

As many of you may have already heard, the most singular figure in the field of innovation-driven entrepreneurship passed away this week suddenly at the age of 88. He was also my mentor, protector and dear friend. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the people who reached out to offer their thoughts and check in. It was a tough week.

For over 20 years now in January, entrepreneurs gather at MIT for EDP and they are put through an intense and fully immersive experience they will never forget.

The time to take on a new BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is upon us, and in fact, it is one that we have been working on for a while but now we can bring it front and center.

In my mind, entrepreneurs are the “grittiest” types of people around – I’ve been one and I’ve taught entrepreneurship to hundreds of students through the entrepreneurship programs at MIT, including my five years as the director of MIT’s delta v student venture accelerator program, which launches student start-ups into the real world.

Quick thoughts after arriving home from an exhausting week in Europe, at the University of Luxembourg, and the MIT GSW in Athens, Greece

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+ Innovating On How We Teach Entrepreneurship and Grow the Community) but last week was back to the “classic” version … and it was awesome!!! It just never gets old.

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 2022 list is dominated by new materials but three seemingly evergreen classics have secured a spot in the top ten and they are all written by people not named “Aulet”. Still, the most popular articles for 2022 are populated most of all by the…

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 EDP. Since I love EDP and I have seen it change so many lives, it was not a hard sale to get at least me to do it.

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 principles of disciplined entrepreneurship.