Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of eight startup companies in Silicon Valley. His last company E.piphany was listed to stock exchange in 1999 for approximately 2 billion dollars.

After the IPO, Steve created the customer development model to better understand the patterns of building successful startups. His book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany , became a bestselling technology entrepreneurship bible and revolutionized the ways startups are built.

Currently Steve is a professor of Technology Venturing at Stanford University. His new course, Lean LaunchPad, teaches aspiring entrepreneurs his method of creating startups. Steve’s ambition is to renew entrepreneurial ecosystems and education all around the world.

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Steve's visit is a part of Aalto - Stanford partnership . He's invited by the president of Aalto University Tuula Teeri , vice president Hannu Seristö and head of Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship, Will Cardwell.

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