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
Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns
Time flies. We are already past the midway mark in our new Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford, and for both students and instructors, it’s an intellectually and emotionally charged period.
00:17:51 |
Wed 09 Nov 2016
The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy
The academic year is in full swing at Stanford and already we’re deep into our new Hacking for Diplomacy course. Building off last spring’s pioneering Hacking for Defense class, which sought to conne…
00:16:17 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why.
00:16:49 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company
Alexander Osterwalder invented the Business Model Canvas, co-founded strategyzer.com and was the lead author of Business Model Generation which sold a million copies in 30 languages. Alexander and I …
00:12:24 |
Fri 14 Oct 2016
The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)
Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.
00:08:51 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Working Hard is not the same as working smart
Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies. The number of hours worked is not the same as how e…
00:06:36 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad
Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first of…
00:07:48 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doin…
00:12:36 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class
On September 7th – 9th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors, training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors ho…
00:11:20 |
Wed 03 Aug 2016
Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)
This is the second of a two-part post following my stay on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Part 1 talked about what I saw and learned – the layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and ho…
00:18:58 |
Sat 30 Jul 2016
Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 1 of 2)
Sitting backwards in a plane with no windows, strapped in a 4-point harness, wearing a life preserver, head encased in a helmet, eyes covered by googles, your brain can’t process the acceleration. As…
00:13:07 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it
In the 21st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel re…
00:08:10 |
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just held our tenth and final week of the Hacking for Defense class. Today the eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.
We’re a little stunned about how well the first prototype …
00:10:16 |
Mon 06 Jun 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9
We just held our eighth and ninth weeks of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), the teams spent the last two wee…
00:13:34 |
Wed 01 Jun 2016
NYU Commencement Speech 2016
Thank you for the opportunity to address you on your graduation from this esteemed engineering school. I’m honored to help you celebrate this important milestone. Your life is already full of milesto…
00:12:55 |
Wed 25 May 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7
We just held our seventh week of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 750 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) almost all the teams are beginning to pivot…
00:13:43 |
Wed 18 May 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6
We just held our sixth week of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) the teams are getting deep into problem under…
00:12:11 |
Tue 17 May 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5
We just held our fifth week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the teams passed the half way mark in the class. They’ve collectively talked to over 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers…
00:12:07 |
Wed 04 May 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4
We just held our fourth week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the teams turned the corner on understanding beneficiaries and finding product/market fit. The 8 teams spoke to 115 beneficiar…
00:11:58 |
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3
We just held our third week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the 8 teams spoke to 108 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), we held a Customer Discovery workshop, we started stream…
00:13:07 |
Fri 22 Apr 2016
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