Bill Aulet Explained

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]

Career

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]}

Personal life

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.

Educational activities

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]

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Team | About | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship . 2013-10-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194341/https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/about/team/ . 2013-10-29 .
2. Web site: William Kenneth Aulet. 4 January 2023 .
3. https://executive.mit.edu/faculty/profile/58-william-aulet MIT Sloan Executive Education
4. Web site: Entrepreneurial Development and Education | MIT. executive.mit.edu.
5. Web site: Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup. Disciplined Entrepreneurship.
6. Web site: 6.932 - Linked Data Ventures. dig.csail.mit.edu.
7. http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/clean_energy_ventures/6 Clean energy ventures
8. Web site: ClimateTech and Energy Prize @ MIT. MIT Climate and Energy Prize.
9. https://miter.mit.edu Archived copy
10. https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/our-resources/mit-global-founders-skills-accelerator MIT Global Founders
11. https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/our-resources/beehive-cooperative/ Beehive cooperative
12. Web site: Home. MIT Reap.
13. Web site: Bill Aulet | faculty | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship . 2013-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131217191028/https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/faculty/bill-aulet . 2013-12-17 .
14. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/2004-monossonprize.php 2004 Monosson Prize
15. Web site: Awards | Resources | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship . 2013-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205555/https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/our-resources/awards-and-scholarships/ . 2013-10-29 .
16. Web site: Korn . Melissa . Lessons in Entrepreneurship . The Wall Street Journal . 4 September 2013.
17. News: Bill Aulet: Teaching Entrepreneurship Is in the Startup Phase. Bill. Aulet. Wall Street Journal . September 11, 2013. www.wsj.com.
18. Web site: Our Dangerous Obsession With The MVP. March 2014 .
19. Web site: The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com.
20. Web site: MIT Sloan Experts Series. MIT Sloan. 12 December 2023 .
21. https://miter.mit.edu/ Archived copy
22. Web site: Entrepreneurship can be taught, writer says - the Boston Globe . .
23. Web site: Bill Aulet | HuffPost . .
24. Web site: Xconomy: 6 Reasons Why the MIT Blackjack Team Became Entrepreneurs . 27 June 2013 .
25. https://miter.mit.edu/articledriving-innovation-large-corporations-ii-three-case-studies/ Three case studies
26. Web site: Fedeli . Kristen . 2023-02-14 . Ergatta CEO Tom Aulet on Gamified Fitness . 2023-06-23 . Fitt Insider . en-US.
27. Web site: Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?. edX.
28. Web site: MIT Bootcamps | MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp.