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
SuperMac War Story 1: Joining SuperMac
After leaving Ardent (a supercomputer company I’ll blog about later) in 1988, I consulted for Pixar when they were still in San Rafael and were a hardware company trying to make software and commerci…
00:03:33 |
Tue 25 Mar 2014
There’s a Pattern Here
After my eighth and likely final startup, E.piphany, sitting in a ski cabin, it became clear that there is a better a way to manage startups. Joseph Campbell’s insight of the repeatable patterns in m…
00:02:34 |
Mon 24 Mar 2014
Out of the Ashes – Something Isn’t Quite Right
“Customer Development” was born four years earlier and 200 miles away on Sandhill Road. I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had crate…
00:03:29 |
Sun 23 Mar 2014
The Product Development Model
I realized that traditional ways to think about startups – have an idea, raise some money, do product development, go through an alpha test, beta test and first customer ship was the canonical model …
00:02:09 |
Sat 22 Mar 2014
Retirement and Redemption
In 1999 I retired and began to reflect about my career and what had happened in the previous 21 years and eight startups in Silicon Valley. Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, an…
00:01:20 |
Fri 21 Mar 2014
You’re Just the Founder
At times VC’s forget who their business is built on. Last week in a car showroom of all places I ran into a VC who I hadn’t seen in ten years. He had sat on the board of my last company and we chatte…
00:04:33 |
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2
With a ~$2 billion endowment the Kauffman Foundation is the largest non-profit focused on entrepreneurship in the world. Giving away $80 million to every year (~$25 million to entrepreneurial causes)…
00:02:41 |
Wed 19 Mar 2014
The Seven Days of Christmas
I’m sitting next to the fireplace in my favorite chair listening to holiday music, looking at the ocean and making occasional attempts to “help” get ready for Christmas dinner. We went for a hike che…
00:05:22 |
Wed 19 Mar 2014
The End of Innocence
I love TechCrunch. If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw so…
00:07:28 |
Mon 17 Mar 2014
He’s Only in Field Service
The most important early customers for your startup usually turn out to be quite different from who you think they’re going to be. When I was at Zilog, the Z8000 peripheral chips included the new “Se…
00:07:18 |
Sun 16 Mar 2014
Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
Raising our kids and being an entrepreneur wasn’t easy. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. Thi…
00:11:04 |
Sat 15 Mar 2014
Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby
In 1994 Rocket Science Games was the only video game company with a rock in its lobby. We had moved our game development facilities from Berkeley and Palo Alto and consolidated into one building on T…
00:03:28 |
Fri 14 Mar 2014
Gravity Will be Turned Off
Part of marketing is the ability to communicate a message to thousands of people and convince them to believe your version of reality. When I was 19 I accidentally had a test run of my ability to do …
00:10:55 |
Fri 14 Mar 2014
When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it …
00:06:05 |
Mon 10 Jun 2013
Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps
Our goal teaching for the National Science Foundation was to make a dent in the universe. Could we actually teach tenured faculty how to turn an idea into a company? And if we did, could it change t…
00:09:33 |
Thu 14 Jun 2012
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