In 2013, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Managing Director Bill Aulet published 'Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup,' which has since sold hundreds of thousands of copies and been used to teach entrepreneurship at universities around the world. One MIT course where it's used is 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures), where instructors have tweaked the framework over the years. In a new book, 'Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures,' they codify those changes and provide a new blueprint for entrepreneurs working in the climate and energy spaces. MIT News spoke with lead author and Trust Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ben Soltoff, who wrote the book with Aulet, Senior Lecturer Tod Hynes, Senior Lecturer Francis O'Sullivan, and Lecturer Libby Wayman. Soltoff explains why climate and energy entrepreneurship is so challenging and talks about some of the new steps in the book. A: It's a broad umbrella. These ventures aren't...
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