Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook

Disciplined Entrepreneurship offers the first real-world, practical, and immediately employable road map for those engaged in creating brand new, innovation-driven enterprises. I cannot recommend that book highly enough. The workbook presented here takes that practical framework, and supports it with explanations of how to proceed down that road map, step by step. It describes the purpose of each step, as well as why each step exists in the sequence where it does. And within each section there are *extremely* helpful forms to organize the information users will discover and generate through their efforts. Included: --Exceptionally good road map with sequential steps. --Explanations of the reasoning, as well as practical methods and approaches. --A robust set of practical, valuable forms. It’s a *stellar* set of concepts and tools to support entrepreneurs engaged in building something entirely new. Founders, owners, or product manager/program managers engaged in building innovation-driven businesses will benefit directly. I suggest that this book should be an immediate purchase and a well worn tool in your toolbox. You will immediately simplify your cognitive load by doing the right things in the right sequence. You will immediately improve your performance by capturing and organizing ideas and facts *outside* of your brain, where they can be viewed, communicated and worked on. You will immediately improve your performance, by focusing not only on what matters most, but on the key elements of those factors. I firmly believe that this book will deliver tangible, real-world gains to every practicing entrepreneur. I am certain your business will benefit directly and immediately. It’s that good.

This and by the text, Disciplined Entrepreneurship is an excellent book -- a step by step approach to initiating a technology start-up. I highly recommend it either as a classroom text for teaching the "how-to", or as a self-help guide for anyone who is considering, in the process of, or has done a new company with an idea that will change the world. It focuses on the customer rather than the idea, and provides a process for both building a winner and abandoning a loser if the idea is not enough. It deals with the essential tasks that need to be done, but leaves out some important jobs one must do once you have something like building a board of directors or dealing with the environment. I wish I had these books when I was doing start-up companies.

Detailed steps on what to do with building a business. You got to do the work and this makes it clear on what you have to do, what's next step, triple check your market, and having all the confidence you need to start

I quite enjoyed reading this book. It covers a lot of ground and is very useful and specific in its recommendations. I bought and reviewed this book to see if I could refer clients to it, and I would if the client fit the profile. I think the book is geared towards product-centric businesses, for people launching from within larger companies as well as to business students. Most entrepreneurs I know would need professional help to work through these exercises. Not because they are difficult, but to overcome their reluctance to do the work and their desire to not get bogged down in a lot of research they do not fully understand. It takes a lot of discipline to follow this approach. This is not a criticism of the approach, just observations from the business service provider trenches.

I have actively used the Disciplined Entrepreneruship Workbook as a participant in the MIT Global Entrepreneruship Bootcamp. My startup team and I received an early publication hard copy hot off the press While we received the workbook right from the source(author and MIT Bootcamp leader Bill Aulet) the real value of the workbook is in its simple and clear sequential roadmap to entrepreneurship with easy to follow depth of detail for each and every step on the entrepreneurial journey. As a voracious reader and serial entrepreneur, if I was asked to recommend just a few books for aspiring(and existing) entrepreneurs, I would most definitely include Bill Aulet's books on entrepreneurship on that short list.

I liked the original book this was derived from. I LOVE this book. The exercises and explanations are perfect. In the first book, I wasn't a fan of the gameboard visuals--they just didn't help me much, especially when they were grouped together up based on topic. This book is more linear, logical, and helpful. Bloody brilliant! It's in my top 10 for best startup books ever! (As a 5X entrepreneur and startup weekend panelist, maybe that means something to folks.)

If you're thinking about starting a business, read this first. It will give you a very clear picture of the work that is ahead of you. Reading it won't guarantee sucess, but it will reveal pitfalls you haven't thought about.

The workbook is very good, compreehensive, but the format of the ebook is horrible, all the worksheets are cutted in half and some texts you can't read. I believe the paperback version might be well-printed, so I would recommend to go for the paperback.

If you are starting your company , make sure to get the two book from Bill Aulet... Also visit the edX seminars bet way to go

Disciplined Entrepreneurship is that exact book which I was looking for. Because it gives in a relatively small volume, so much detailed information. And this workbook is an essential supplement to it.

The 24 steps are well explained and illustrated with hands on practical worksheets you can use in your own. However it adresses mainly startups. For corporate product / innovation teams, it might be a bit incomplete specially on stakeholder, financials, leadership, team management, change management.

Super excellent

Bill Aulet understands that successful entrepreneurship involves a disciplined process -- it's not all natural talent and it's not all luck or instinct. This workbook lays out the steps to take an idea to successful reality -- just like he's done with his teams of students at MIT.