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Back in the 1980s, when I was just getting started in the computer industry and the business world, working at IBM, I was assigned to work in the extraordinarily exciting area of personal computers as it was just starting to blow up. I saw for the first time what entrepreneurship was about (there was very limited understanding of tech entrepreneurship before this), and the leaders in the field of entrepreneurship included Bill Gates (Microsoft founder), Steve Jobs (Apple founder), and Mitch…

First big takeaway: Orbit/JetPack isn't just a fancy chatbot. It acted as what we call an External Enabler. Academic researcher Professor Per Davidsson from Queensland University of Technology talks about how external enablers change the game for entrepreneurs by making things less "opaque" and reducing "agency-intensity".

Remington Hotchkis, a serial entrepreneur in Los Angeles (LA), California, had just seen his latest and biggest venture—Bixby Roasting, a successful D2C subscription coffee business patterned after Dollar Shave Club and Chewy.com—acquired by a much larger company in a successful exit where it could realize its full potential. He should have been celebrating and maybe even relaxing for the first time in six years, surfing at Laguna Beach, and appreciating how he had made people’s lives better by…

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…

If you think you are going to read about yourself in this post, let me warn you it’s highly unlikely. Doesn’t mean we do not love you but there was just an overwhelming amount of great (entrepreneur)Ship that happened in 2024. Here are my top 10 items.

We are extremely proud of this document as it reminds us and shows the incredible depth and breadth of the impact our small but extraordinarily mighty team accomplished in 12 months. But it is not meant to be a "show off" document nearly as much as it is meant to be a guide or blueprint for others who want to learn from what we have done. The explicit mission of MIT is to create a body of knowledge and share that knowledge with the world so we can address the world's most pressing challenges.

Great ideas regarding entrepreneurship come out of Silicon Valley.  After all, it is one of the key centers of innovation-driven entrepreneurship, however, the product is often specific to that context.  The entrepreneurial process should be studied.  You can learn from anyone, but it should not be thought of as unassailable or the only way. In fact, I have seen firsthand that when Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship models like “Blitzscaling” (it is not the only one!) are transported to other…

MIT delta v 2024 (the 13th cohort) is now in the books and here are all the videos of the different teams who graduated from it along with some musing about this year’s edition.

Entrepreneurs must understand finance, but I didn't fully grasp its importance until I took MIT’s Entrepreneurship 104: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance. This course was my starting point, preparing me for MIT’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp and ultimately setting me toward my PhD at the University of St. Gallen.

Bill Aulet discusses the profound impact of MIT's entrepreneurship boot camps, noting that participants from war-torn countries found paths to economic freedom.