Steve Blank Podcast
Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur and now a business school professor at Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley, shares his hard-won wisdom as he pioneers entrepreneurship as a management science, combining Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development. The conclusion? Startups are simply not small versions of large companies! Startups are actually temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 295
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
How did you go bankrupt?”
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This…
00:15:22 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business
I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI startups they…
00:10:20 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025
We just finished the 15th<>annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions.
During the 2025 spring…
00:09:09 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.
What a year.
Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national…
00:12:58 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Teaching National Security Policy with AI
International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it. This is why we’ve adopted and integrated AI in our Stanford national…
00:14:47 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower
US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth.
00:14:34 |
Tue 27 May 2025
The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy: Part 6a The Secret History of Silicon Valley
The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon sy…
00:10:35 |
Sun 18 May 2025
How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years.
00:15:33 |
Mon 12 May 2025
An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons of time, money and grief.
00:06:05 |
Tue 06 May 2025
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers.
00:05:10 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
How to get meetings with people too busy to see you
Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach.
00:04:33 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes
Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes.
00:06:44 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Nuke’em ‘Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job
I started working when I was 14 (I lied about my age) and counting four years in the Air Force I’ve worked in 12 jobs. I left each one of them when I was bored, ready to move on, got fired, or learne…
00:09:39 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA
Entrepreneurs tend to view adversity as opportunity.
00:07:39 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear…
00:07:03 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies, a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It was a brawling “take no prisoners,” work hard, party hard,…
00:06:00 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
We Sleep Peaceably In Our Beds At Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready To Do Violence On Our Behalf.
Everyone has events that shape the rest of their lives. This was one of mine.
00:06:56 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley
In 2023 China flying a “spy balloon” over the U.S. created an international incident. It turns out the U.S. did the same to the Soviet Union in the 1950’s.
00:09:03 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups
Reducing Risk – Simulation versus Customer Development
If you remember the first part of this discussion, startups face two types of risk; invention risk and/or customer/market risk. In either type …
00:04:02 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
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