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]
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