
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley-based retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley. A prolific educator, thought leader and writer on Customer Development for Startups, Blank teaches, refines, writes and blogs on “Customer Development,” a rigorous methodology he developed to bring the “scientific method” to the typically chaotic, seemingly disorganized startup process. Now teaching Entrepreneurship at three major Universities
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Customer Development 2 - Three types of markets
You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem
Steve Blank Makes Cake
6. Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn? (November 11, 2009)
It’s Not How Big It Is – It’s How Well It Performs: The Startup Genome Compass
It's very easy to underprice your product
Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2
The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again
Bonfire of the Vanities
Why Governments Don’t Get Startups
How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition
Steve Blank's Mix for Matt
The Pay-It-Forward Culture
The Venture Hacks Podcast
How to Build a Great Company, Step by Step (8/14/12)
Take a course from the king of customer development
It’s very easy to underprice your product
We teach entrepreneurship like every vertical market has the same set of rules
Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011
The Democratization of Entrepreneurship
The Internet Might Kill Us All
Are You the Fool at The Table?
Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers
Going Out With His Boots On
There’s Always a Plan B
A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1
November Mix
Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers
Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates
The Principles of Lean
(Almost) Live @ Throwdown
The Workout (July 2006)
Customer Development 1 - Introduction
Vertical Markets
Customer Development, Class 5: IMVU
The VC Pitch – Confusing the Destination with the Journey
When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars
No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.
The Apprentice – Entrepreneur Version
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 7: Revenue Model
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model
The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford – The Final Presentations
Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures
Mentors, Coaches and Teachers
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 3: Value Proposition Hypotheses
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses
Hiring – Easy as Pie
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