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
How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows
If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important e…
00:12:40 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety
If you haven’t gotten a new car in a while you may not have noticed that the future of the dashboard looks like this... That’s it. A single screen replacing all the dashboard gauges, knobs and switch…
00:26:12 |
Wed 31 Oct 2018
What Your Startup Needs to Know About Regulated Markets
Often the opposite of disruption is the status quo.
If you’re a startup trying to disrupt an existing business you need to read The Fixer by Bradley Tusk and Regulatory Hacking by Evan Burfield. Th…
00:14:06 |
Thu 11 Oct 2018
The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare
I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone. This wasn’t just another product announcement …
00:26:34 |
Fri 28 Sep 2018
The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law
For most of our lives the idea that computers and technology would get, better, faster, cheaper every year was as assured as the sun rising every morning. The story “GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Dev…
00:08:32 |
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Is the Lean Startup Dead?
Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture,” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-mark…
00:13:27 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make Or Break Your Career
There’s no handbook on how to evaluate and process “suggestions” and “advice” from a boss or a mentor. But how you choose to act on these recommendations can speed up your learning and make or break …
00:07:59 |
Mon 23 Jul 2018
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe
We just finished our 3rd annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Six teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.
Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplis…
00:09:45 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency?
Over the last few years Pete Newell and I…
00:14:18 |
Thu 07 Jun 2018
Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant
Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry.
The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you…
00:17:11 |
Thu 03 May 2018
Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I wa…
00:10:34 |
Wed 11 Apr 2018
The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs
I just received a thank-you note from a student who attended a fireside chat I held at the ranch. Something I said seemed to inspire her:
“I always thought you needed to be innovative, original to be…
00:04:01 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
Leadership is More Than a Memo
Leadership is More Than a Memo by Steve Blank
00:04:32 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
CoinOut Gets Coin In
It’s always fun to see what happens to my students after they leave class. Jeff Witten started CoinOut four years ago in my Columbia University 5-day Lean LaunchPad class. CoinOut eliminates the hass…
00:06:35 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Innovation at Speed – when you have 2 million employees
Success no longer goes to the country that develops a new fighting technology first, but rather to the one that better integrates it and adapts its way of fighting…Our response will be to prioritize …
00:08:59 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America
I just read book – Janesville – that reminded me again of life outside the bubble.
Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen. It…
00:08:00 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors
Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth,…
00:11:55 |
Sat 04 Nov 2017
The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community
“…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”
- The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland
Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Def…
00:17:36 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here) to turn ideas into sol…
00:09:11 |
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Removing the Roadblocks to Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice
Innovation theory and innovation in practice are radically different. Here are some simple tools to get your company’s innovation pipeline through the obstacles it will encounter.
00:10:05 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
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