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Bill Aulet
Author and managing director
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT[1] and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and MIT Sloan Executive Education.[3][4] He is also the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.[5]
Since Aulet became Managing Director in 2009, he has conceived, designed and overseen the implementation of numerous innovative programs, from new courses (Linked Data Ventures,[6] Entrepreneurial Product Marketing and Development, Energy Ventures,[7] Applications of Advanced Entrepreneurial Techniques) and student initiatives (MIT Clean Energy Prize,[8] MIT Entrepreneurship Review[9]) to accelerators (Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator,[10] Beehive Cooperative[11]) and thought leadership initiatives (Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program[12] or REAP[12]).[13] In April 2013, Aulet was awarded the Adolf F. Monosson Prize[14] for Entrepreneurial Mentoring at MIT.[15]
Prior to joining MIT, Aulet worked for more than a decade at IBM before launching a series of startups, including 3-D imaging company SensAble Technologies Inc.[16]
His writings on entrepreneurship have been published by The Wall Street Journal,[17] TechCrunch[18] The Boston Globe,[19] The Huffington Post, Xconomy, the Kauffman Foundation, MIT Sloan Experts,[20] and the MIT Entrepreneurship Review.[21][22][23][24][25]
A former professional basketball player, Aulet lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with his wife; they have four grown sons. One of Aulet's sons is Tom Aulet, founded the company Ergatta, which makes gamified indoor rowers.[26] Aulet holds a bachelor’s in engineering from Harvard University and an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Bill Aulet teaches the MIT massive open online course (MOOC) on entrepreneurship: "Entrepreneurship 101: Who Is Your Customer?"[27] and is Instructor at MIT Bootcamps.[28]
- "Team | About | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
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- "Entrepreneurial Development and Education | MIT". executive.mit.edu.
- "Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup". Disciplined Entrepreneurship.
- "6.932 - Linked Data Ventures". dig.csail.mit.edu.
- Clean energy ventures Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- "ClimateTech and Energy Prize @ MIT". MIT Climate and Energy Prize.
- Archived copy Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- MIT Global Founders Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Beehive cooperative Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- "Bill Aulet | faculty | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- 2004 Monosson Prize Archived 2015-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
- "Awards | Resources | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- Korn, Melissa (September 4, 2013). "Lessons in Entrepreneurship". The Wall Street Journal.
- Aulet, Bill (September 11, 2013). "Bill Aulet: Teaching Entrepreneurship Is in the Startup Phase". Wall Street Journal – via www.wsj.com.
- "Our Dangerous Obsession With The MVP". March 2014.
- "The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
- "MIT Sloan Experts Series". MIT Sloan. December 12, 2023.
- Archived copy Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Three case studies Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Fedeli, Kristen (February 14, 2023). "Ergatta CEO Tom Aulet on Gamified Fitness". Fitt Insider. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
- A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs: Understanding Differences in the Types of Entrepreneurship in the Economy
- "Teaching Entrepreneurship Is in the Startup Phase," Wall Street Journal
- "Startup Stories Are Great Narratives, But Not Blueprints for Success," Wall Street Journal
- "Driving Innovation In Large Corporations II: Three Case Studies," MIT Entrepreneurship Review
- "Entrepreneurship Development Program," MIT Sloan Executive Education, Professor of the Practice