MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program

Resources to help you launch your entrepreneurial journey.

Join aspiring entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from around the world for a deep dive into MIT's culture of high-tech entrepreneurship!

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experience with extraordinary peers. 

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Since its inception in 1999, MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) has enabled thousands of participants from around the world to launch successful new, innovation-driven ventures using Professor Bill Aulet’s unique 24-step framework. Renowned for its action-based learning and breakneck pace, EDP offers exposure to the content, context, and contacts that enable entrepreneurs to succeed. 

In one whirlwind week, and following a disciplined methodology, you’ll learn each step of the venture creation process and apply those lessons in an exciting, team-based company-building project.

As a participant in this unique program, you will learn how to:

• Create, identify, and evaluate new venture opportunities
• Interpret customer needs and quantify the value proposition
• Leverage innovation ecosystems
• Develop a winning business plan
• Scale startups to be globally successful
• Navigate the venture capital investment process
• Start and build a successful innovation-driven company

Learn an exciting framework for startup success!

Faculty

Paul Cheek

Paul Cheek is a serial tech entrepreneur, software engineer, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, and a Lecturer at MIT Sloan, where he has taught several courses on new enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures. Check built MIT's entrepreneurship platform, Orbit, and also coaches entrepreneurs in various programs like the MIT delta v accelerator, MIT fuse, Sandbox Innovation Fund, workshops, and hackathons.

Lecturer and Entrepreneur in Residence, The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship 

Bill Aulet

Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The center is responsible for entrepreneurship across all five schools at MIT starting with education but also extending well outside the classroom with student clubs, conferences, competitions, networking events, awards, hackathons, student trips and most recently accelerators. Prior to joining MIT, Aulet had a 25-year track record of success in business himself. He has directly raised more than $100 million in funding for his companies and more importantly has led to the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars in market value in those companies.

Faculty Director
Professor of the Practice, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management 
Managing Director, The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

BILL AULET’S 24-STEP FRAMEWORK 

Professor Bill Aulet’s world-renowned framework for disciplined entrepreneurship breaks down the steps for creating a successful startup in a way that any industrious person can learn and apply, from conducting primary market research, to identifying windows of opportunity, to developing a deeper understanding of timing and triggers. In EDP, his framework is brought to life by engagements with local startup companies, case studies with successful entrepreneurs, and competitive, team-based activities.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND 

This program is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate venture officers, startups, and those who would like to develop or strengthen a climate of entrepreneurship in their corporations, universities, and regions. Teams of entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs are encouraged to attend the program together with university staff and/or development professionals from their region. 

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Entrepreneurship Development Program

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Resources to help you launch your entrepreneurial journey.

Apply now for a once-in-a-lifetime
experience with extraordinary peers. 

Entrepreneurship Development Program