About Steve
Born 1953 in New York City, Steve Blank served four years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. He spent two decades in Silicon Valley founding or co-founding eight technology startups, including work at MIPS Computers, Zilog, and E.piphany. In 2001 he began teaching entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. He created the Lean LaunchPad class (2011) and developed the Innovation Corps curriculum adopted by the National Science Foundation as the standard for science commercialization.
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- Creating the customer development methodology
- Launching the Lean Startup movement
- Founding Lean LaunchPad class
- Developing the Innovation Corps curriculum
- Co-creating Hacking for Defense course
- Authoring The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- Authoring The Startup Owner's Manual
- Teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia universities
- Hosting Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show
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