Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 5/15/13 |
Here is the text of the speech I delivered May 10 at the University of Minnesota College of Science & Engineering:
I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation.
This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic, was an Electrical Engineering … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 5/2/13 |
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/16/13 |
In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with.
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Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/15/13 |
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/12/13 |
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In this series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/11/13 |
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 2/26/13 |
“What’s gone and what’s past help
Should be past grief.”
– William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about dealing with failure. So here’s mine. In my experience, living through failure has 6 stages:
Stage 1: Shock and Surprise
Stage … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 2/19/13 |
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to … More >
Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 2/7/13 |
In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA, Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean … More >
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