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Steve Blank

Influencer

Entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. He’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialised and how companies and the government innovate....

Steve is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, The Startup Owner’s Manual - and his May 2013 Harvard Business Review cover story defined the Lean Startup movement. He teaches at Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley and NYU; and created the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps - now the standard for science commercialisation in the US. His Hacking for Defense class at Stanford is revolutionising how the US defense and intelligence community can deploy innovation with speed and urgency.

Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered…

Steve B. 27 Sep'19 8 min read

What Your Startup Needs to Know About Regulated Markets

One of the great things about teaching has been seeing the innovative, unique, groundbreaking and sometimes simply crazy ideas of…

Steve B. 25 Sep'19 10 min read

How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked…

Steve B. 22 Sep'19 12 min read

Entrepreneurship Education And Corporate Innovation: The Evolution

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

I was interviewed by Philip Bouchard, Executive Director of TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship Advisory, about…

Steve B. 22 Aug'19 22 min read

Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Here’s…

Steve B. 19 Aug'19 13 min read

How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A New Addition To The Lean Toolset...

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation…

Steve B. 17 Aug'19 10 min read

The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

I just received a thank-you note from a student who attended a…

Steve B. 13 Aug'19 3 min read

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a…

Steve B. 20 Nov'17 9 min read

Why Uber Is The Revenge Of The Founders

Uber, Zenefits, Tanium, Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in…

Steve B. 16 Nov'17 17 min read

Removing The Roadblocks To Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice

Innovation theory and innovation in practice are radically different. Here are some simple tools to get…

Steve B. 13 Oct'17 8 min read

How Companies Strangle Innovation – And How You Can Get It Right

I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by…

Steve B. 09 Oct'17 11 min read

Working Outside the Tech Bubble

Annual note to self – most of the world exists outside the…

Steve B. 06 Oct'17 5 min read

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