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
Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology
We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology.
I’ve always thought of the class as a minimal viable product – testing n…
00:10:28 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
You Don’t Need Permission
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices to …
00:03:47 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Your Product is Not Their Problem
There are no facts inside your building, so get the heck outside:
I just had a call with Lorenz, a former business school student who started a job at a biotech startup making bacteria to take CO2 ou…
00:04:01 |
Sat 05 Jun 2021
These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation
These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation by Steve Blank
00:06:47 |
Wed 26 May 2021
Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups
The U.S. Department of Defense is coming to grips with the idea that the technologies it needs to keep the country safe and secure are no longer exclusively owned by the military or its prime contrac…
00:09:53 |
Fri 21 May 2021
A Path to the Minimum Viable Product
I first met Shawn Carolan and his wife Jennifer at the turn of the century at 11,000 feet. I was hiking with my kids between the Yosemite High Sierra camps. Having just retired from a career as an en…
00:18:28 |
Sat 01 May 2021
E Pluribus Unum – A Rallying Cry for National Service
The Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One – is our de facto national motto. It was a rallying cry of our founders as they built a single unified nation from a collection of states. It’s a g…
00:08:41 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?
The story of RYAN and Able Archer is an oft-told lesson of a U.S. intelligence failure, miscalculation, and two superpowers unaware they were on the brink of an accidental nuclear war — all because t…
00:12:02 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Hacking for Allies
During the Cold War U.S. diplomatic and military alliances existed to defend freedom around the world. Today, these alliances are being reshaped to respond to Russian threats to the Baltics and Easte…
00:04:58 |
Sun 04 Apr 2021
When National Security Falls Between the Cracks
After hearing from 20+ guest speakers, including two Secretaries of Defense, Generals, Admirals and Policy makers in our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class – the direction of technology and …
00:09:40 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance
After hearing from 20+ guest speakers, including two Secretaries of Defense, Generals, Admirals and Policy makers in our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class – the direction of technology and …
00:11:10 |
Sun 14 Mar 2021
Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired
Last week the Biden administration delayed seating several Trump appointees to defense advisory boards. It’s a welcome signal that incoming leaders recognize these groups are essential, not just patr…
00:09:02 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Lessons for the New Administration – Technology, Innovation, and Modern War
Our recent national security class at Stanford, Technology, Innovation, and Modern War was designed to give students insights on how the onslaught of new technologies like AI, machine learning, auton…
00:12:01 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Wrap Up
This class, Technology, Innovation, and Modern War was designed to give our students insights on how the onslaught of new technologies like AI, machine learning, autonomy, cyber, access to space, bio…
00:09:23 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis
We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems…
00:24:31 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall
We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operati…
00:16:41 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord
We just held our sixteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operation…
00:22:19 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
The Rapture Happened but I Wasn’t Called
Last Friday the Secretary of Defense abruptly fired half of the Defense Business Board. For some reason, he forgot me. Over the last year the administration began replacing members of every defense a…
00:05:00 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher
We just held our fifteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operation…
00:24:59 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 13 – ONR– Rear Admiral Lorin Selby
We just held our thirteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operatio…
00:21:13 |
Sun 29 Nov 2020
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