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
What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief O…
00:09:24 |
Sun 01 May 2022
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major disruptor of existing busi…
00:23:11 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act, our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC, China, etc.
But despite all this talk about chips and semicon…
00:15:00 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many
One of the most audacious and bold manifestos for the future of Naval innovation has just been posted by the Rear Admiral who heads up the Office of Naval Research. It may be the hedge we need to det…
00:16:56 |
Sat 09 Apr 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up
We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technolog…
00:15:24 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
If I ask you to think of an elephant do you see an elephant in your head when you close your eyes? I don’t. Regardless of how descriptive the imagery, story or text I can’t create any pictures in my …
00:06:23 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford
75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. Terman used the money to …
00:09:42 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber
We just completed the eighth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how techn…
00:07:01 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space
We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how tech…
00:05:32 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy
We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how techno…
00:08:58 |
Sun 02 Jan 2022
When There Seems to Be No Way Out – Customer Discovery for Your Head
As an entrepreneur at times you forget that being in charge doesn’t mean you have to know everything. When it feels like you’re trapped facing an unsolvable dilemma, and wrestling with a seemingly in…
00:06:43 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning
We just completed the fifth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how techno…
00:08:01 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery
Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business mode…
00:18:24 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors
We just completed the fourth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how techn…
00:09:47 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3 – Russia
We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology w…
00:12:05 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 2
We just had our second week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology …
00:09:36 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition
For 25 years as the sole Superpower, the U.S. neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. The country, our elected officials, and our military committed to a decades-long battle to e…
00:07:06 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Lead and Disrupt
You think startups are hard? Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next.
Char…
00:07:35 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency. I don’t know how many of these I’ve been to in the last couple years, but this one just made my head explode.
00:07:20 |
Sun 03 Oct 2021
The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught
Revolutions start by overturning the status quo. By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. Here’s why and what we did abo…
00:23:25 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
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