Steve Blank

Background

About Steve Blank

Steve co-created the Lean Startup movement. He has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers.(MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. full bio at Steve is a past board member of California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), Audubon California, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) the DOD business board and the U.S. Navy science and technology board. He served as a governors appointee to the California Coastal Commission. Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship and national security innovation at Stanford. He was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering. And was honored with the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business. The National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercializing basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps. All his course material is open-sourced at http://steveblank.com/slides/ His article on the Lean Startup was the cover story of the May 2013 Havard Business Review. It can be downloaded from Commencement speaker at- U.C. Santa Cruz in 2019 - Dalhousie University in 2017 - NYU in 2016 - ESADE Business School in Barcelona in 2014 - University of Minnesota in 2013 - Philadelphia University in 2011: http://steveblank.com/2011/05/17/philadelphia-university-commencement-speech-–-may-15th-2011/ Specialties: Marketing, sales and business dev strategies for emerging startups. Innovation in corporate and government. Conservation and environmental organizations.