Steven Gary Blank

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Steven Gary Blank, usually known as just Steve Blank (b. 1953?), is a retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley. Today he is best known as a teacher at multiple universities. He is also the author of the Customer Development model for early stage companies. This model attempts to view entrepreneurship as a practice that can be managed rather than just purely an art form to be experienced.

Business career

He started his career at 3M/Interactive Systems in Ann Arbor Michigan. Moving to Silicon Valley in 1978 he worked at ESL, Zilog, Convergent Technologies, MIPS Computers, Ardent Computers, and SuperMac Technologies and was founder/CEO of Rocket Science Games and a founder at E.piphany.

Teaching

Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering, U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School and a joint MBA class with Columbia Business School and Haas.

Blank has collected an informal history of Silicon Valley, which was presented as a Google tech talk called The Secret History of Silicon Valley.

Public Service

Blank is the Chairman of Audubon California. He is on the board of Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.) He was appointed to the California Coastal Commission.

Books

Four Steps to the Epiphany (Berkeley course notes.)

References

• http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/blank.html
• http://www.amazon.com/dp/0976470705/
• http://www.coastal.ca.gov/bios.html

External Links

• Steve Blank speaking at Stanford University

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