Steve Blank

Steve Blank, revolutionizing the way startups are built

During his two-week visit to Finland, Estonia and Russia, Blank will visit the key players in the region, as well as a mixture of startup-entrepreneurs, students, investors and major corporation leaders.

Steve Blank is serial entrepreneur, founding part of 8 startup companies in Silicon Valley. His last company E.piphany IPOed in 1999 for 2 billion dollars. Today he is best known as a professor of Stanford reforming entrepreneurship education and innovation ecosystems around the globe

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Interview with Steve Blank: The life of an entrepreneur as an artist

Steve Blank is that rare combination of successful entrepreneur and inspiring teacher who’s also an insightful writer. His writings define, explain and predict trends that are sweeping the entrepreneurial world. Customer Development, Agile Development, the Lean Startup, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Business Model Generation are all terms for methodologies that can actually help startups get on in life.

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Links

» Profile of Steve (PDF, 0.95Mb)
» NY Times on the Lead Startup Model
» NY Time on "What startups can teach big companies"

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Startup Dictionary

Angel, A-round, Burn rate? Learn the terms »

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Three themes in media

Customer development model

E-curriculum 2.0

Entrepreneurial ecosystems

Additional readings

» Virtual ICT Accelerator - Final Report (PDF,04Mb)

Quotes from Steve Blank

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan.

Everything you learn in the business school about large company management is destructive for an early-stage venture. Large corporations execute existing business models, start-ups search for them. The tools needed, techniques needed, and people needed for execution versus search is what we now know to be radically different.

Startups were actually like explorers—searching for a new world, where everything—customers, markets, prices—were unknown and new.