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
How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right
I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated …
00:15:13 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
Working Outside the Tech Bubble
Annual note to self – most of the world exists outside the tech bubble.
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We have a summer home in New England in a semi-rural area, just ~10,000 people in town, with a potato farm across the street…
00:05:52 |
Thu 17 Aug 2017
National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington
Two good things just happened in Washington – these days that should be enough of a headline.
First, someone ideal was just appointed to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Second, funding to…
00:11:24 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
Why good people leave large tech companies
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,
divide the work, and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I was vis…
00:08:41 |
Tue 11 Jul 2017
Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”
As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t co…
00:09:07 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
Tesla Lost $700 Million Last Year, So Why Is Tesla’s Valuation $60 Billion?
Automobile manufacturers shipped 88 million cars in 2016. Tesla shipped 76,000. Yet Wall Street values Tesla higher than any other U.S. car manufacturer. What explains this more than 1,000 to 1 discr…
00:06:19 |
Tue 20 Jun 2017
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.
Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that r…
00:10:06 |
Tue 20 Jun 2017
Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life
I gave the Alumni Day talk at U.C. Santa Cruz and had a few things to say about innovation...Even though I live just up the coast, I’ve never had the opportunity to start a talk by saying “Go Banana …
00:21:18 |
Thu 11 May 2017
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications
I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to l…
00:16:14 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together
When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problem…
00:12:53 |
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Why Some Startups Win
I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem…
00:13:15 |
Mon 20 Mar 2017
The No Excuses Culture
Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raining…
00:07:09 |
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy
The latest “aha” moment for me when I was at Columbia University teaching an intensive 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class. The goal of the class is to expose students to the basics of…
00:06:31 |
Sat 04 Mar 2017
Innovation – something both parties can agree on
On the last day Congress was in session in 2016, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a bill that increased innovation and research for the country. For me, seeing Congress pass this bill, the America…
00:06:36 |
Sat 04 Mar 2017
The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development
We’re holding our 2nd Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy,… educators and sponsors class January 17-19 at Georgetown University.
00:06:16 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department
We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced techno…
00:21:05 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession
I had to laugh when my post about what happens when innovative CEOs retire or die appeared in both the bastion of capitalism– the Harvard Business Review— and in the official newspaper of the Chinese…
00:04:37 |
Sun 04 Dec 2016
Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams try…
00:07:56 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice
We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Following Sec…
00:18:14 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture
Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is and is res…
00:11:29 |
Sun 13 Nov 2016
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