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]