Steve Blank

Professor and Stanford University

Expertise

• Customer Development
• Lean Startup Methodology
• Fundraising
• Entrepreneurship

Bio

Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician recognized for developing the Customer Development methodology, which launched the Lean Startup movement. Steve is also the co-founder of E.piphany.

Steve has spent over thirty years within the high technology industry. He has founded or worked within eight startup companies, four of which have gone public.

Steve's Google Tech talk, The Secret History of Silicon Valley, offers a widely regarded insider's perspective on the emerging Silicon Valley's start-up innovation. Steve has published three books: The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost and The Startup Owner's Manual.

Steve teaches and writes about Customer Development and is a consulting associate professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford. He currently lectures at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).