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Monday May 20, 2019

Bill AuletManaging Director,

Martin Trust Center

for MIT Entrepreneurship

University of Stavanger

Overview of Program

Why be an entrepreneur? What does it take?

Why scale?

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Purpose of this Summer School

1. Yes It Can

2. Yes We Can

3. Here is How

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What is Entrepreneurship?3

The formation of a new venture that produces a

product (which includes in my definition an offering as

well) that creates some value for which your new

venture can capture some value to make it

economically sustainable.

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Entrepreneurship

SME (Small Medium Enterprise)

Local Market Focus

Restaurants, Dry Cleaners, Services

IDE (Innovation-Driven Enterprise)

Global Market Focus

Products w/ Innovation at Core

• Δt is short• Linear growth (capped)• Less investment required

• Δt is long• Exponential growth (uncapped)• A lot of investment required

Further Refinement of this Definition

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Innovation = Invention*Commercialization

Definition of Innovation

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What Is Entrepreneurship?

Invention

* Technology essentials

* Knowledge of science & engineering

* Skills to develop

* Skills to build

Commercialization

* Business essentials

* Venture engineering

* Knowledge to frame decisions

* Skills to start

* Skills to grow

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Misperceptions7

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7 Whopping LiesTold About

Entrepreneurs Which are Actually Damaging to All Parties Involved

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#1 -“Entrepreneurs are

mercurial individualists”

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#2 -“Entrepreneurs are the smartest & most high

achieving people in the room”

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#3 -“Entrepreneurs are born,

not made”

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#4 -“Entrepreneurs love risk”

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#5 -“Entrepreneurs are successful because they are charismatic”

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#6 -“Entrepreneurs are lucky”

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#7 -“Entrepreneurs are undisciplined”

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One Other Misperceptions …

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The Truth

• Relevant elements of a craft: Accessible

Builders

Unique Products

Learnable

First Principles Exist But Don’t Assure Success

Apprenticeship

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Purpose of this Summer School

1. Yes It Can

2. Yes We Can

3. Here is How

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Importance of Spirit21

Willingness and even joy in being

different …

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Importance of Spirit22

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Spirit + Skills

Successful Entrepreneurship

Successful Entrepreneurship=

Spiritof a pirate

Skillsof a Navy Seal

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Specifically Knowledge of the Process – First Principles

• Domain expertise will be covered on Ocean Industry in

this school as well

• Domain experistise is essential but it should build off

general first principles – which may be bent or altered

but there is no reason to start over everytime

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Benefits of Approach

Comprehensive yet Practical

Integrated

Proven & Tested – To Stand the Test of Time

Sequential/Prescriptive

Creates Common Language for Knowledge Transfer and

Accumulation

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The MTC4ME Entrepreneurship Ramp

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Inspiration: Idea,

Technology

Application:Extra-Curricular

Acceleration: Fully Immersive

Capstone

Fundamentals:Classroom

Exploration:Workshops, Grants, EIR’s

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The Experience for the Student …38

SeptDemo Day

(Sat)“Yes I Can!”

thenT=0 Festival

(M-Th)Gettingstarted

FallLow Friction

Events, Classes,

Clubs“Increasingexposure”

IAPFUSE,

StartMIT,$100K Pre-Accelerator

Treks,Internships“Starting

to commit”

SpringMore

AdvancedClasses,

Competitions,Ind. Studies,

Services“In the race”

Summerdelta v

Accelerator,Plus other

Fullcommitment

options“Full

immersion –all in for summer”

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Integrated but highly Customizable

as well

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What Does this Look Like on the Ground?

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The Story of Reo, Rita, Natalie, Chuan & Gavin

Start IAPJan 2015

15.390Feb – May 2015

delta vJune – Aug 2015

BCG

Hacking Arts

PowderWave

GSDSept – Jan 2015

IDEOSumo Logic

TA

6.933

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Purpose of this Summer School

1. Yes It Can

2. Yes We Can

3. Here is How

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What is Scaling?44

To take a small venture and make it a big one – in

impact.

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Sense of Urgency45

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Other Examples46

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Questions?

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aulet@mit.edu