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Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business

Steve Blank

Steve Blank teaches entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley's Haas Business School, the joint Berkeley/Columbia MBA program, and at the Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering. Over the last 33 years, he has been part of or co-founded eight Silicon Valley start-ups. Blank serves on the California Coastal Commission and is on the board Audubon California, UC Santa Cruz Foundation and the California League of Conservation Voters.

Posts by Steve Blank

5-15-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Playing it safe will get you nowhere
5-13-13Science & Technology: What's on your mind?Guns and cyber security
5-2-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?China startups — the Gold Rush and fire extinguishers
4-29-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Fly high
4-16-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?When Hell froze over – in The Harvard Business Review
4-15-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley
4-12-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?The rise of Chinese venture capital (part 3 of 5)
4-11-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?China’s Torch Program: The glow that can light the world (part 2 of 5)
4-11-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?China: The sleeper awakens (part 1 of 5)
2-26-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Failure and redemption
2-19-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Crazy enough to change the world
2-7-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Entrepreneurs Experience — do it and learn it
1-30-13Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Qualcomm’s corporate entrepreneurship program — lessons learned (part 2)
1-28-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Designing a corporate entrepreneurship program – A Qualcomm case study (part 1 of 2)
1-23-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!
1-21-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Don’t underestimate the undergraduates
1-14-13Business & Economics: What's on your mind?The endless frontier: U.S. science and national industrial policy (part 1)
12-26-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Завзятість – Tenacity: How I spent a year one night in Kiev
12-14-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Developing a 21st-century entrepreneurship curriculum
12-12-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Customer development in a diagram
12-3-12Business & EconomicsOther Subjects: What's on your mind?The future of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship
11-27-12Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Open-source entrepreneurship
11-23-12Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Careers start by peeling potatoes
11-13-12Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Customer development in Japan: A history lesson
11-6-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Entrepreneurs as dissidents
11-1-12Other Subjects: What's on your mind?10,000 startups — Startup Weekend Next
10-22-12Other Subjects: What's on your mind?How we fight — cofounders in love and war
10-17-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?How to get a VC meeting — the flowchart
10-8-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Startup communities: Building regional clusters
8-28-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Vision versus hallucination — founders and pivots
8-21-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?When Microsoft threatened to sue us over the letter ‘E’
7-30-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Lying on your resume
7-24-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Unrequited love
5-2-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologyWhy innovation dies
4-3-12Business & EconomicsScience & TechnologyScience & Technology: What's on your mind?Blinded by the light — The epiphany
3-29-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologyNail the customer-development manifesto to the wall
3-14-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & Technology2012 Lean LaunchPad presentations — Part 2 of 2
3-7-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & Technology2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations — Part 1 of 2
3-6-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologySearch versus Execute
2-27-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Killing your startup by listening to customers
2-17-12Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & Technology: What's on your mind?Who dares wins — 2nd annual int’l business model competition
1-8-12Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Why the movie industry can’t innovate and the result is SOPA
12-21-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologyThe government starts an incubator: The NSF Innovation Corps
12-15-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologyThe startup team
11-30-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?You’ll be dead soon — carpe diem
11-15-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologyScientists unleashed
11-1-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Science & TechnologySteel in their eyes — Why VCs should be startup CEOs
10-20-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?How the iPhone got tail fins — Part 2 of 2
10-18-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?How the iPhone got tail fins — Part 1 of 2
10-10-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Nokia as ‘He who must not be named’ and the Helsinki Spring
10-7-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?The Helsinki Spring
9-22-11Business & EconomicsScience & TechnologyScience & Technology: What's on your mind?How to build a web startup — Lean Launchpad Edition
9-16-11Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics: What's on your mind?Why governments don’t ‘get’ startups
9-16-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?The pay-it-forward culture
8-30-11Science & TechnologyScience & Technology: What's on your mind?Top science & technology innovations of the decadeIt’s not how big it is — it’s how well it performs: The startup genome compass
8-9-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Bonfire of the Vanities: Marketing vs. sales
8-2-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Eureka! A new era for scientists and engineers