Steve Blank was born on 1953 and is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker based in Pescadero, California.
24 Facts About Steve Blank
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Steve Blank's Hacking for Defense Class has been adopted by the US Department of Defense.
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Steve Blank was born to immigrant parents in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.
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Steve Blank attended the University of Michigan for one semester.
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Steve Blank spent four years in the US Air Force, and spent time in Thailand during the Vietnam War, where he was maintaining electronic warfare equipment.
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Steve Blank helped the government understand the Soviets' technological and arms developments during the Cold War.
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Steve Blank was part of 8 startups include Zilog and MIPS Computers, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, SuperMac Technologies, ESL and Rocket Science Games.
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In 2005, Steve Blank published The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win, which details his approach to the Customer Development process.
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In 2010, Steve Blank released a second book, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost which relates stories from his life as an entrepreneur.
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Steve Blank has given commencement addresses at Philadelphia University, University of Minnesota, ESADE Business School in Barcelona, New York University Engineering School, Dalhousie University and UC Santa Cruz.
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Steve Blank served on the California Coastal Commission from 2007 until he resigned his seat in 2013.
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Steve Blank is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford and is a Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University.
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Steve Blank was a past lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, NYU and at Imperial College in London.
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Steve Blank began to develop the customer development methodology in the mid-1990s and began teaching it at UC Berkeley in 2003.
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None of these are original insights: Steve Blank arranged existing concepts into an approach informed by his experiences as a product manager and entrepreneur.
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Steve Blank's customer development methodology is a cornerstone of the lean startup movement, popularized by Eric Ries.
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Steve Blank developed the ideas beginning around 2004 when he was an investor and advisor to the company, IMVU, that Ries co-founded.
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In January 2011, Steve Blank created the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford University, Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley.
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In July 2011 the National Science Foundation asked Steve Blank to adapt his Lean LaunchPad class to help scientists who were applying for an SBIR grant learn how to commercialize their academic inventions.
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In 2012, Steve Blank testified in front of congress about the program and in 2017 he testified before the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
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Also in 2016, the US Department of State asked if Steve Blank could create a version of the class, Hacking For Diplomacy, to have students work on State department problems.
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In 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic Steve Blank created a series of classes called Hacking for Recovery to help business adapt their business models in the crisis.
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In 2020, Steve Blank co-created the Technology, Innovation and Modern War class with Joe Felter and Raj Shah at Stanford University.
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Steve Blank created a class to train educators to teach the Lean LaunchPad method.