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
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency.…
00:11:55 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Profound Beliefs
In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You can’t be an eff…
00:08:16 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
I just saw the movie Oppenheimer. A wonderful movie on multiple levels.
But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to …
00:17:55 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones wi…
00:11:09 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
Today, the U.S. is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Both are wakeup calls that victory and deterrence in modern war…
00:08:40 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT
Artificial Intelligence has been the technology right around the corner for at least 50 years. Last year a set of specific AI apps caught everyone’s attention as AI finally crossed from the era of ni…
00:11:26 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the p…
00:06:53 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial…
00:11:16 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Be Where Your Business Is
A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale.
00:08:52 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.
Joe Felter, Raj S…
00:15:27 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defens…
00:10:23 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education & Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation Educators Summit December 14, 1-4 pm Eastern Time, 10 am-1 pm Pacific Time. This virtual gathering will…
00:04:00 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) Fr…
00:05:11 |
Sat 12 Nov 2022
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each with hundreds of products. Currently…
00:11:38 |
Sat 29 Oct 2022
Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Lǎozi 老子
I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm. After a bit of catchi…
00:08:29 |
Sat 01 Oct 2022
National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up
Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and Science Act, one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in th…
00:12:26 |
Sat 17 Sep 2022
Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO
How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progre…
00:08:41 |
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher t…
00:59:35 |
Sat 04 Jun 2022
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China
Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit.
National Security is Now Depende…
00:15:20 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century after the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, burn rates were unsustainable, and startups were quickly running out of …
00:09:28 |
Sun 08 May 2022
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