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’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human
Over the last month billions of people have been unwilling participants in the largest unintentional social experiment ever run – testing how video conferencing replaced face-to-face communication.
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00:10:51 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life
Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as employees early in their careers) have gone virtual. Pre-pandemic these coffees we…
00:07:45 |
Sat 18 Apr 2020
Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus
With in-person classes canceled, we’re about to start our online versions of Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Oceans (and here). The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Dis…
00:10:22 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
This is the one blog post that I hope I’m completely wrong about.
With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’…
00:13:09 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
What cashflow-negative companies must do to survive
We’re in uncharted territory with the Covid-19 pandemic. But it’s increasingly looking grim.
Companies that outlast this crisis will have CEOs who …
00:16:39 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
Action Today for CFO’s
Jeff Epstein is on the board of Shutterstock, Twilio, Kaiser Permanente, and was the CFO of Oracle, DoubleClick, Nielsen and King World and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He te…
00:03:25 |
Sun 22 Mar 2020
You’re Not Important to Me but I Want To Meet With You
If you’re a busy startup founder, you’re likely delegating the task of scheduling key meetings about things you want/need to your admin. This is a mistake.
That’s because the dialog you have in sett…
00:04:58 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event
Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”
That’s a mistake.
Th…
00:20:28 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
Clayton Christensen
If you’re reading my blog, odds are you know who Clayton Christensen was. He passed away this week and it was a loss to us all.
Everyone who writes about innovation stood on his shoulders.
His insi…
00:07:36 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
There was a time when much of U.S. academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense con…
00:11:34 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
How to Convince Investors You’re the Future not the Past
I just had a coffee with Mei and Bill, two passionate students who are on fire about their new startup idea. It’s past the “napkin-sketch” stage with a rough minimum viable product and about 100 user…
00:09:05 |
Tue 29 Oct 2019
Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation
The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors –…
00:09:21 |
Wed 16 Oct 2019
Who Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit
It’s been almost a decade since we first started teaching the Lean Methodology. It’s remade entrepreneurship education, startup practice and innovation in companies and the government. But in all tha…
00:04:22 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile
AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. It often produces a result that’s like combining a floor wa…
00:06:39 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019
We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. At the end of each class we have each team give a Lessons Learned presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks whic…
00:09:31 |
Sat 08 Jun 2019
The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation
I was interviewed by Philip Bouchard, Executive Director of TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship Advisory, about how entrepreneurship education has changed, mission-driven entrepreneurship, and what we’ve le…
00:24:08 |
Sun 02 Jun 2019
How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset
Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, …
00:13:11 |
Fri 10 May 2019
Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad
VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large compan…
00:15:59 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different
We just finished the 8th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The team presentations are at the end of this post.
It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class …
00:10:53 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Fast Time in Three Horizon High
I’m a big fan of McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model of innovation. (if you’re not familiar with it there’s a brief description a few paragraphs down.) It’s one of the quickest ways to describe and prior…
00:08:58 |
Sat 02 Mar 2019
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