Perspective on What It Takes to Be Successful as an Entrepreneur

MIT RES.SUD-01 Substance Use Disorders Ventures Program, Spring 2025 Instructor: Bill Aulet View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-sud-01-substance-use-disorder-ventures-program-spring-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60O8-oSngUwSGC1J2EhNKsa In this video, entrepreneur and MIT Professor, Bill Aulet explores disciplined entrepreneurship and how to build sustainable companies that solve real-world problems. He draws on 15 years of MIT's successful educational program and features real success stories like BioBot Analytics. 2:40 What is Entrepreneurship? 10:03 What is Innovation? 22:56 Antifragility 26:03 "9 Whopping Lies Told About Entrepreneurs..." 29:57 Other Misconceptions 30:42 The Truth: Entrepreneurship is NOT a science (but it CAN be taught) 31:10 "Creative Irreverence" & "The Spirit of a Pirate" 33:03 The MTC4ME Entrepreneurship Ramp 35:25 "Still in Crisis in Entrepreneurial Education" 40:51 The State of Entrepreneurial Education at MIT 43:58 Raison D'etre 44:37 No "Tech Bros," over 50% Female CEOs 46:29 We DON'T Have it all Figured Out 47:14 Biobot Analytics 50:36 Lessons Learned 51:28 "the world's biggest companies are coming to steal ... their lunch money." 52:01 Bill's New Book 53:25 Q & A 54:03 How do we teach Entrepreneurship at scale, worldwide? 58:35 Question: "What do you do differently to have 50% women in your program?" 1:00:03 A Merit-Based Environment 1:04:31 REVENUE, not Sales License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.