Bill Aulet
Author and managing director
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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]
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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]