Steve Blank
Entrepreneur, educator and author
Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur, educator and author. He created the customer development method that gave rise to the lean startup movement.
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American Born 1953 in Lower East Side, United States
About Steve Blank
Steve Blank worked at eight technology companies, beginning in Silicon Valley in 1978, before moving into teaching. He has taught entrepreneurship at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University. He developed the Lean LaunchPad class and the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) curriculum, which became the standard approach to commercialising science at the National Science Foundation. He is also a co-creator of Hacking for Defense, a program of the US Department of Defense. The Four Steps to the Epiphany grew out of the class text he wrote after his career as a startup executive. It sets out his Customer Development model. In 2009 he received the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in Management Science and Engineering.