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== Personal life ==
== 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, the CEO of Ergatta, which makes gamified [[Indoor rower|indoor rows]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=Charlie |date=2021-09-30 |title=Tom Aulet of Ergatta: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO |url=https://medium.com/authority-magazine/tom-aulet-of-ergatta-five-things-i-wish-someone-told-me-before-i-became-a-ceo-a002b48e1dc3 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Authority Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fedeli |first=Kristen |date=2023-02-14 |title=Ergatta CEO Tom Aulet on Gamified Fitness |url=https://insider.fitt.co/tom-aulet-co-founder-ceo-of-ergatta/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Fitt Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> Aulet holds a bachelor’s in engineering from [[Harvard University]] and an SM from the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]].
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 rower|indoor rows]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=Charlie |date=2021-09-30 |title=Tom Aulet of Ergatta: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO |url=https://medium.com/authority-magazine/tom-aulet-of-ergatta-five-things-i-wish-someone-told-me-before-i-became-a-ceo-a002b48e1dc3 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Authority Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fedeli |first=Kristen |date=2023-02-14 |title=Ergatta CEO Tom Aulet on Gamified Fitness |url=https://insider.fitt.co/tom-aulet-co-founder-ceo-of-ergatta/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Fitt Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> Aulet holds a bachelor’s in engineering from [[Harvard University]] and an SM from the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]].


== Educational activities ==
== Educational activities ==

Revision as of 17:06, 23 June 2023

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] He is also the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.[4]

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,[5] Entrepreneurial Product Marketing and Development, Energy Ventures,[6] Applications of Advanced Entrepreneurial Techniques) and student initiatives (MIT Clean Energy Prize,[7] MIT Entrepreneurship Review[8]) to accelerators (Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator,[9] Beehive Cooperative[10]) and thought leadership initiatives (Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program[11] or REAP[11]).[12] In April 2013, Aulet was awarded the Adolf F. Monosson Prize[13] for Entrepreneurial Mentoring at MIT.[14]

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.[15]

His writings on entrepreneurship have been published by The Wall Street Journal,[16] TechCrunch[17] The Boston Globe,[18] The Huffington Post, Xconomy, the Kauffman Foundation, MIT Sloan Experts,[19] and the MIT Entrepreneurship Review.[20][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 rows.[26][27] 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?"[28] and is Instructor at MIT Bootcamps.[29]

References

  1. ^ "Team | About | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  2. ^ "William Kenneth Aulet".
  3. ^ "Entrepreneurial Development and Education | MIT". executive.mit.edu.
  4. ^ "Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup". Disciplined Entrepreneurship.
  5. ^ "6.932 - Linked Data Ventures". dig.csail.mit.edu.
  6. ^ http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/clean_energy_ventures/6
  7. ^ "ClimateTech and Energy Prize @ MIT". MIT Climate and Energy Prize.
  8. ^ https://miter.mit.edu
  9. ^ https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/our-resources/mit-global-founders-skills-accelerator
  10. ^ https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/our-resources/beehive-cooperative/
  11. ^ a b "Home". MIT REAP.
  12. ^ "Bill Aulet | faculty | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  13. ^ http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/2004-monossonprize.php
  14. ^ "Awards | Resources | Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  15. ^ Korn, Melissa (4 September 2013). "Lessons in Entrepreneurship". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. ^ Aulet, Bill (September 11, 2013). "Bill Aulet: Teaching Entrepreneurship Is in the Startup Phase". Wall Street Journal – via www.wsj.com.
  17. ^ "Our Dangerous Obsession With The MVP". March 2014.
  18. ^ "The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  19. ^ "MIT Sloan Experts Series". MIT Sloan.
  20. ^ https://miter.mit.edu/
  21. ^ "Entrepreneurship can be taught, writer says - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  22. ^ "Bill Aulet | HuffPost". HuffPost.
  23. ^ "Xconomy: 6 Reasons Why the MIT Blackjack Team Became Entrepreneurs". 27 June 2013.
  24. ^ http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/downloadableresources/a-tale-of-two-entrepreneurs.pdf[permanent dead link]
  25. ^ https://miter.mit.edu/articledriving-innovation-large-corporations-ii-three-case-studies/
  26. ^ Katz, Charlie (2021-09-30). "Tom Aulet of Ergatta: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO". Authority Magazine. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  27. ^ Fedeli, Kristen (2023-02-14). "Ergatta CEO Tom Aulet on Gamified Fitness". Fitt Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  28. ^ "Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?". edX.
  29. ^ "MIT Bootcamps | MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp".