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A Critical Analysis Through the Lens of the Oct 31, 2022 Pitchbook’s Ranking of Universities Based on Entrepreneurial Output

Teach The Teachers (T^3) Workshop for Disciplined Entrepreneurship to be held Nov 17-18 in Mexico City – Seats just released to public

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 https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/accelerator/2022-delta-v/ (there is also a very nice digital version of our Demo Day book summarizing all the teams and the program). Every year, the student teams improve and this year was certainly no exception. We could not be prouder of this…

It is a new year and every year we like to continue to updated the teaching materials we make available to all Disciplined Entrepreneurship educators.

Many entrepreneurs we have come across used to believe the myths rigorously, and they took a path leading them to abject failure. To counter the problem, we started guiding the entrepreneurs through the framework laid out in the book Disciplined Entrepreneurship (DE) authored by Bill Aulet in our recent incubation program.

What creates revenue? This should be very simple as in the example I have provided. It should be some “units” time average selling price (ASP). ASP is the average amount of revenue that you receive per unit. This is after discounts and commissions you pay to resellers. It is the actual money that flows into your bank account.

Here they are and also with a few other good things that I use in our classes each year that you might find interesting and helpful as well.

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.