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.
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- every 9 days
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- 295
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2
We just held our second week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the 8 teams spoke to 106 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), we held a DOD/IC 101 workshop, our advanced lecture was…
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Fri 15 Apr 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 1
Hacking for Defense is a new class in Stanford’s School Engineering, where students learn about the nation’s security challenges by working with innovators inside the Department of Defense (DoD) and …
00:09:07 |
Thu 07 Apr 2016
What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking
To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Traditional lenders (banks) think that startups are too risky fo…
00:14:48 |
Tue 05 Apr 2016
Learning Through Reflection
We just finished the 6th annual Lean LaunchPad class. This year we made a small but substantive addition to way we teach the class, adding a week for reflection. The results have made the class massi…
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Fri 25 Mar 2016
The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations
As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a …
00:10:29 |
Wed 24 Feb 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place
Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community
Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’…
00:12:04 |
Fri 29 Jan 2016
How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost
This is the third in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model…
00:10:23 |
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
When companies or agencies search for disruptive and innovative strategies they often assemble a panel of experts to advise them. Ironically the panel is often made up of people whose ideas about inn…
00:09:33 |
Sat 26 Dec 2015
How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works
This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepr…
00:12:42 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is
This is the second in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new mode…
00:09:15 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D
I first met Evangelos Simoudis when he ran IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions Division and then as CEO of his first startup Customer Analytics. Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture C…
00:15:34 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation
In a recent workshop with a large company focused on the Innovation@50x process, I mentioned that founders and intraprenuers operate more like artists than accountants – on day one they see something…
00:13:04 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and Companies
I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. One of the interesting innovation challenges I’ve encountered centers on a co…
00:10:17 |
Thu 10 Sep 2015
Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance
I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult i…
00:10:41 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins
Todd Dunn is the Director of Innovation and runs the Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Lab, which is working to foster innovation in the healthcare industry. Todd DunnHe’s now run several Lean …
00:10:22 |
Sat 11 Jul 2015
Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work
I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here…
00:12:46 |
Fri 26 Jun 2015
Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can beco…
00:11:55 |
Thu 21 May 2015
Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech…
00:09:32 |
Thu 14 May 2015
Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work
I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.” Unfortu…
00:12:21 |
Fri 08 May 2015
How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People
Thibault Duchemin and his team applied for our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley in 2014. We accepted them because it was clear Thibault was driven to solve a very personal problem – he grew up in …
00:09:32 |
Fri 01 May 2015
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