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 Defense In Silicon Valley
In peacetime the U.S. military is an immovable and inflexible bureaucracy. In wartime it can adapt and adopt organizational change with startling speed. BMNT, a new Silicon Valley company, is combini…
00:13:31 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation
I’ve been working with Roberto, the Chief Innovation Officer of a diversified company I’ll call Sprocket Industries. I hadn’t heard from Roberto in awhile and when we caught up, it was clear his init…
00:09:19 |
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cult…
00:09:08 |
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School
During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Berkeley were heavily funded to develop Cold War weapon systems. Stanford’s focus was Electronic Intellige…
00:14:24 |
Thu 05 Mar 2015
Life Science Startups Rising in the UK
Stephen Chambers spent 22 years in some of the most innovative companies in life science as the director of gene expression and then as a co-founder of his own company. Today he runs SynbiCITE, the U…
00:08:03 |
Sat 21 Feb 2015
What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle
Last week I got a call from Patrick an ex-student I hadn’t heard from for 8 years. He was now the CEO of a company and wanted to talk about what he admitted was a “first world” problem. Over breakfas…
00:09:15 |
Tue 17 Feb 2015
When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check
I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hu…
00:06:50 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
It’s About Women Running Startups
“Why is it so hard for a woman to still get taken seriously by a venture capitalist?”
00:07:33 |
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!
The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have e…
00:10:51 |
Fri 02 Jan 2015
I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine
Over the last three years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 700 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commerc…
00:13:08 |
Fri 19 Dec 2014
The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland
The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the…
00:11:53 |
Fri 12 Dec 2014
Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad
NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup co…
00:08:48 |
Sat 22 Nov 2014
Why Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die
In the 20th century corporate skunk works were used to develop disruptive innovation separate from the rest of the company. They were the hallmark of innovative corporations. By the middle of the 21s…
00:06:26 |
Wed 12 Nov 2014
Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook
Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so? Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar ma…
00:08:15 |
Sun 02 Nov 2014
The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design
Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it.
00:05:51 |
Mon 27 Oct 2014
Watching My Students Grow
One of the great things about teaching is that while some students pass by like mist in the night others remain connected forever. I get to watch them grow into their careers and cheer them on. Its b…
00:05:08 |
Tue 07 Oct 2014
Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner
In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think abou…
00:11:01 |
Wed 01 Oct 2014
The Woodstock of K-12 Education
Describing something as the “Woodstock of…” has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering. It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepren…
00:07:53 |
Thu 25 Sep 2014
How To Find the Right Co-Founders?
How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. I was having break…
00:06:47 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same
For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close to 400 teams in robotics, computer science,…
00:02:12 |
Wed 17 Sep 2014
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