AI and Entrepreneurship
Learn how AI is reshaping entrepreneurship, and how founders can use it to build faster, leaner, and more ambitious companies.
AI and Entrepreneurship
Learn how AI is reshaping entrepreneurship, and how founders can use it to build faster, leaner, and more ambitious companies.
Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing what it means to start and grow a business. In this course, you'll explore a new kind of company called the AI-Driven Enterprise (AIDE)—a venture that combines the speed and efficiency of a small business with the big-picture ambition of a high-growth startup. You'll walk through every stage of building a company, from early idea to scaling up, and see how AI can reduce the time, cost, and risk at each step.
What you'll learn
- Understand what makes an AI-Driven Enterprise different from a traditional small business or a typical high-growth startup
- Learn how AI can be applied at every stage of building a company, from validating an idea to scaling a team and product
- Explore how to manage the uneven and rapidly shifting capabilities of AI tools without losing strategic focus
- Build the leadership mindset needed to thrive in a fast-moving, AI-powered environment by balancing machine efficiency with human creativity
Meet your instructors
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Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of ManagementProfessor Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the world. Bill is an award-winning educator and author whose current work is built off the foundation of his 25-year successful business career first at IBM and then as a three-time serial entrepreneur. During this time, he directly raised over a hundred million dollars and, more importantly, created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value through his companies. Since 2009, he has been responsible for leading the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Martin Trust Center. Bill's first book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, has been translated into over 18 languages and has been the content for three online edX courses which have been taken by hundreds of thousands of people in 199 different countries. The accompanying follow-on book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in April 2017. Bill has widely published in in places such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Sloan Management Review, the Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, MIT Sloan Experts and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world.
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MIT senior advisor for Entrepreneurship and AI and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ManagementPaul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to his role at MIT, he co-founded three ventures which earned him recognition by Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world. Paul has been featured in publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc Magazine.
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Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ManagementAdam Blake is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Telescoped, a company focused on better connecting companies with remote software developers to enable people to lead fulfilling lives. Prior to Telescoped he co-founded ThriveHive, a SaaS company providing marketing solutions to small businesses that was acquired by Propel Marketing in 2016. Adam served in a variety of roles at ThriveHive both before and after the acquisition, including COO, CMO, and GM.
Bill Aulet
Bill Aulet
Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the world. Bill is an award-winning educator and author whose current work is built off the foundation of his 25-year successful business career first at IBM and then as a three-time serial entrepreneur. During this time, he directly raised over a hundred million dollars and, more importantly, created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value through his companies. Since 2009, he has been responsible for leading the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Martin Trust Center. Bill's first book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, has been translated into over 18 languages and has been the content for three online edX courses which have been taken by hundreds of thousands of people in 199 different countries. The accompanying follow-on book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in April 2017. Bill has widely published in in places such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Sloan Management Review, the Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, MIT Sloan Experts and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world.
Professor Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the world. Bill is an award-winning educator and author whose current work is built off the foundation of his 25-year successful business career first at IBM and then as a three-time serial entrepreneur. During this time, he directly raised over a hundred million dollars and, more importantly, created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value through his companies. Since 2009, he has been responsible for leading the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Martin Trust Center. Bill's first book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, has been translated into over 18 languages and has been the content for three online edX courses which have been taken by hundreds of thousands of people in 199 different countries. The accompanying follow-on book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in April 2017. Bill has widely published in in places such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Sloan Management Review, the Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, MIT Sloan Experts and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world.
Paul Cheek
Paul Cheek
MIT senior advisor for Entrepreneurship and AI and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Paul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to his role at MIT, he co-founded three ventures which earned him recognition by Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world. Paul has been featured in publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc Magazine.
Paul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to his role at MIT, he co-founded three ventures which earned him recognition by Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world. Paul has been featured in publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc Magazine.
Paul was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence and has since taught, mentored, and advised thousands of entrepreneurs around the world. Paul designed and now leads a new advanced course he developed to help student entrepreneurs build their businesses called “Venture Creation Tactics”. Additionally, Paul teaches hundreds of MIT and Harvard undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students each year in the historic "New Enterprises" course. His teaching materials have been used by educators around the world.
Prior to his work at MIT, Paul was the co-founder of Oceanworks and Work Today. Oceanworks is a for-profit company with a mission to end plastic pollution. Work Today is a venture backed digital staffing and recruiting company. Paul has also built technologies for and consulted with LogMeIn, BlackRock, Prudential, Mazda, and more. He serves on the CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Board, the MIT Sandbox Funding Board, and judges the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s CO—100 Awards.
Adam Blake
Adam Blake
Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Adam Blake is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Telescoped, a company focused on better connecting companies with remote software developers to enable people to lead fulfilling lives. Prior to Telescoped he co-founded ThriveHive, a SaaS company providing marketing solutions to small businesses that was acquired by Propel Marketing in 2016. Adam served in a variety of roles at ThriveHive both before and after the acquisition, including COO, CMO, and GM.
Adam Blake is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Telescoped, a company focused on better connecting companies with remote software developers to enable people to lead fulfilling lives. Prior to Telescoped he co-founded ThriveHive, a SaaS company providing marketing solutions to small businesses that was acquired by Propel Marketing in 2016. Adam served in a variety of roles at ThriveHive both before and after the acquisition, including COO, CMO, and GM.
Prior to founding ThriveHive, Adam founded a consumer electronics business, Pear Cable, which he bootstrapped into a profitable company selling products globally. Before Pear Cable, Adam served as the director of Fuel Cell Technology Development at CellTech Power, a developer of novel fuel cells. Adam holds three patents, received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management with a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Adam is also an active startup advisor and investor.