steve blank
@sgblank

Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford

 Silicon Valley
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Joined March 2009
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The measure of a life is not time. It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. Your report-card is whether the world is a better place.
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Tombstones don’t have room for excuses why the person six feet under didn’t accomplish much. Carpe Diem.
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Is OpenAi and Google replaying the Netscape and Microsoft wars? Microsoft won because they bundled the browser with the apps and os they owned.
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Why Investors Don't Care About Your Business steveblank.com/2025/07/01/wh… darn autocorrect!

Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business

Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won…

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How the US gave up being a science superpower steveblank.com/2025/05/13/ho…

How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and econ…

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How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower steveblank.com/2025/04/15/ho…

How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower

Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happ…

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How to Beat China and Russia And Fix the Broken Department of Defense piped.video/3pLEpO90jLo @JTLonsdale

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government

In World War II, the U.S. government embraced a radical idea: putti...

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Congratulations to team Usul from Stanford's Hacking for Defense class linkedin.com/posts/y-combina…

Usul (YC S24) helps defense contractors win more DoD contracts. They use AI to make it easy for...

Usul (YC S24) helps defense contractors win more DoD contracts. They use AI to make it easy for companies to interpret government policy, track funding lines, and strategize the best opportunities...

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Join @AlexOsterwalder and I July 2nd in London! eventbrite.co.uk/e/fireside-…
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Back together to create a disturbance in the force #entrepreneurship #startup #customerdevelopment #leanstartup
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A must read if you're in Edtech reachcapital.com/2024/05/16/…

Introducing Edtech Playbooks

Resources created and curated by Reach Capital to help founders build successful edtech businesses

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When companies stop dreaming about the future they’ll find themselves living in the past.
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via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2024/04/22/opini…

Opinion | Elon Musk Wouldn’t Be the First Car Company Founder to Flame Out (Gift Article)

The world is not always kind to visionaries with self-control issues.

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Founders need to be ruthless when chasing deals steveblank.com/2024/04/16/fo…
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Read the 1st @BedrockSaaS blog post, describing the future of professional learning & how we have built it in Bedrock, our SaaS social learning network that offers courses, serious games (to include wargames), and intelligence streams at scale. thebedrock.co/post/the-futur…
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Getting Beyond Innovation Theater - Nov 16 - 10am PST - Fireside chat
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Third year of our Stanford Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class
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The law of strategic planning: the number of people involved in creating the plan is inversely proportional to the actual amount of strategy it contains.
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush @DeptofDefense steveblank.com/2023/08/29/be…

Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to…

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This approach is a game-changer for how companies are built via @davidschonthal @Gartner Talent Angle bit.ly/3K97VIe

SPOTLIGHT: Disarming Change Resistance with David Schonthal

In his book, “The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas,” Kellogg professor David Schonthal challenges the default assumption that selling an idea requires the seller to heigh

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems - steveblank.com/2023/07/25/le… @imperialcollege #Innovation Or how I spent my summer vacation.

Lean Meets Wicked Problems

This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean moral…

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