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Amazon.com Exclusive Q&A with Bill Aulet, author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship Bill Aulet Why
did you name the book Disciplined Entrepreneurship? I love the name because in two words it
captures the dichotomy that makes for a successful entrepreneur: the fearless spirit of a pirate with
the execution skills of a Navy SEAL Team Six. At the Martin Trust Center for MIT
Entrepreneurship, we help our student entrepreneurs strike this balance. Why did you decide to
write this book now? The book came about because MITâ€s Howard Anderson and I were
teaching an introductory entrepreneurship class and over time the class grew from five teams of
four students to over 100 teams. We worked very hard to put materials together to help us teach
the class in a scalable manner, and I soon realized that this was a pervasive problem that could
cause a real crisis and halt the progress entrepreneurship was making in society. That was why I
started writing the book. What does it take to be an entrepreneur? I get this question everywhere I
go. Many people have the misperception that successful entrepreneurs are born, not made, with a
history of high achievement. Other misperceptions are that entrepreneurs are mercurial
individualists, that they love risk, and that they are undisciplined. In most cases it is quite the
opposite; research has been proving more and more that entrepreneurship can be taught and that
should be considered a legitimate profession and discipline. Entrepreneurship is a team-sport
where ideas are much less important than the teamâ€s ability to execute in a highly focused
manner. What makes you qualified to write a book on entrepreneurship? In my 15 years of doing
and teaching entrepreneurship, Iâ€ve gained a lot of wisdom from the scar tissue of failure.
Itâ€s not that Iâ€m a guru, itâ€s that I figure out what works and I pass on that knowledge.
Iâ€m fortunate to have this fabulous position at MIT from which I can foster a community where
people can learn from each other. After working at IBM for 11 years, I started my first company,
which failed. This failure was so visceral and so real, and I learned a tremendous amount while
crashing and burning. Above all, I became aware that the team that you work with is critically
important. You need to collaborate with someone you can trust and who works in a way that is
complementary to you. Is there anyone who has been a particular inspiration to you? During my
time at IBM, I was amazed by the late Thomas Watson, Jr., who was able to scale a company in a
way few others have done. The person who has probably inspired me even more is Mitch Kapor,
who started Lotus Development Corporation and demonstrated that people could do positive
things for society through business. He showed me business could be cool. He transformed
Cambridgeâ€s Kendall Square into a hub for innovation-driven entrepreneurship. How does

presenting the entrepreneurial process as a series of steps or a roadmap help the reade