Steve Blank

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Adjunct Professor Stanford University

Pescadero, California, United States
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Steve co-created the Lean Startup movement. He has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company.

full bio at www.steveblank.com/about

Steve is a past board member of California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), Audubon California, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) the DOD business board and the U.S. Navy science and technology board. He served as a governors appointee to the California Coastal Commission.

Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship and national security innovation at Stanford. He was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering. And was honored with the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business. The National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercializing basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps. All his course material is open-sourced at http://steveblank.com/slides/

His article on the Lean Startup was the cover story of the May 2013 Havard Business Review. It can be downloaded from www.steveblank.com

Commencement speaker at:

- U.C. Santa Cruz in 2019
- Dalhousie University in 2017
- NYU in 2016
- ESADE Business School in Barcelona in 2014
- University of Minnesota in 2013
- Philadelphia University in 2011: http://steveblank.com/2011/05/17/philadelphia-university-commencement-speech-–-may-15th-2011/

Specialties: Marketing, sales and business dev strategies for emerging startups. Innovation in corporate and government.
Conservation and environmental organizations.

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Experience

  • Stanford University

    Stanford University

    14 years

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      Founding Faculty - Gordian Knot Center For National Security Innovation

      Stanford University

      - Present 3 years 10 months

      Stanford, California, United States

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      Co-Author Hacking For... Diplomacy, Defense. Technology, Innovation & Great Power Competition

      Stanford University

      - Present 13 years 8 months

      United States

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      Adjunct Professor

      Stanford University

      - Present 14 years

      Stanford, California

      Teaching:
      Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition https://tigpc21.sites.stanford.edu
      Hacking for Climate and Sustainability https://h4cs.stanford.edu
      Hacking for Recovery https://h4r.stanford.edu
      Hacking for Defense https://h4d.stanford.edu
      Hacking for Diplomacy http://hacking4diplomacy.stanford.edu
      Lean LaunchPad: https://leanlaunchpad.stanford.edu

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    Advisory Board Member

    Applied Materials

    - Present 5 years

    Santa Clara, California, United States

    https://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/news/press-releases/2020/09/applied-materials-welcomes-technical-advisory-board

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    Architect I-Corps @ NIH Curriculum

    National Institutes of Health

    - Present 11 years 3 months

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    Architect Innovation Corps Curriculum, Principal Investigator I-Corps

    National Science Foundation

    - Present 14 years

    Developed the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps curriculum (an adaptation of my Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.) Recruited teaching team, taught first two cohorts.

    Co-Prinicpal Investigator for the U.C. Berkeley Innovation Corps node.

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    Lecturer

    Imperial College London

    - Present 10 years 8 months

    London

    Wicked innovation class 2023/24/25, Lean LaunchPad for synthetic biology 2015

  • Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board

    U.S. Navy

    - 1 year 5 months

    Advice and counsel to the Department of the Navy on scientific, innovation, technical, manufacturing, acquisition, logistics, medicine and business management.

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    Senior Fellow

    Columbia Business School

    - 10 years 2 months

    New York

  • United States Department of Defense Graphic

    Defense Business Board

    United States Department of Defense

    - 8 months

    Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  • UC Berkeley, Haas Business School Graphic

    Lecturer

    UC Berkeley, Haas Business School

    - 14 years 5 months

  • New York University Graphic

    Lecturer

    New York University

    - 2 years 1 month

    Greater New York City Area

  • UCSF Graphic

    Lecturer

    UCSF

    - 2 years 1 month

    San Francisco Bay Area

  • California League of Conservation Voters Graphic

    Board Member

    California League of Conservation Voters

    - 4 years 5 months

    http://www.ecovote.org/about/

  • Commissioner

    California Coastal Commission

    - 6 years 5 months

    http://www.coastal.ca.gov/

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    Trustee

    UC Santa Cruz

    - 2 years 3 months

  • Director

    Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST)

    - 3 years 5 months

    http://www.openspacetrust.org/

  • Expert Advisory Panel

    California Ocean Protection Council

    - 7 months

  • Director

    Audubon California

    - 8 years 8 months

    http://www.audubon-ca.org/

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    Director

    CafePress.com

    - 7 years 5 months

    www.cafepress.com

  • IMVU Graphic

    Director

    IMVU

    - 5 years 1 month

    www.imvu.com

  • National Audubon Society Graphic

    Director

    National Audubon Society

    - 3 years 6 months

    http://www.audubon.org/

  • Director

    Macrovision

    - 5 years 8 months

    www.macrovision.com

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    Director

    Immersion

    - 9 years 11 months

    www.immersion.com

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    Cofounder, President, VP Marketing

    E.piphany

    - 3 years 2 months

    www.epiphany.com
    http://www.echeng.com/software/epiphany/financing.html

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    cofounder, CEO

    Rocket Science

    - 3 years 7 months

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/rocket.science.html

  • VP Marketing

    SuperMac

    - 4 years

  • Ardent Graphic

    cofounder, VP Marketing

    Ardent

    - 3 years

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardent_Computer

  • VP Marketing, acting VP Sales

    MIPS Computer

    - 2 years

    www.mips.com/

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    VP Marketing, Unix Division

    Convergent Technologies

    - 3 years 7 months

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_(Unisys)

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    Product Marketing Manager

    Zilog

    - 3 years

    www.zilog.com

  • Training Manager

    ESL

    - 2 years 9 months

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESL_Inc.

  • Field Engineering

    Interactive Systems

    - 2 years

  • U.S. Air Force Graphic

    Electronic Warfare

    U.S. Air Force

    - 4 years 1 month

    Korat, Ubon & Udorn Thailand: F-4D & E, F-105G, AC-130A & H
    Wurtsmith AFB: B-52H

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Honors & Awards

  • National Science Foundation/NCIIA Outstanding Leadership

    National Science Foundation/NCIIA

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103037485286943&set=a.929767611103.2609434.1240402

  • Commencement Speaker

    Philadelphia University, University of Minnesota, ESADE, NYU, Dalhousie

    1. 2011 Philadelphia http://steveblank.com/2011/05/17/philadelphia-university-commencement-speech-–-may-15th-2011/
    2. 2013 Univ Minnesota http://steveblank.com/2013/05/15/university-of-minnesota-commencement-speech-may-10th-2013/
    3. 2014 EASDE http://steveblank.com/2014/03/31/esade-business-school-commencement-speech-2/
    4. 2016 NYU https://steveblank.com/2016/05/23/nyu-commencement-speech-2016/
    5.2017 Dalhousie…

    1. 2011 Philadelphia http://steveblank.com/2011/05/17/philadelphia-university-commencement-speech-–-may-15th-2011/
    2. 2013 Univ Minnesota http://steveblank.com/2013/05/15/university-of-minnesota-commencement-speech-may-10th-2013/
    3. 2014 EASDE http://steveblank.com/2014/03/31/esade-business-school-commencement-speech-2/
    4. 2016 NYU https://steveblank.com/2016/05/23/nyu-commencement-speech-2016/
    5.2017 Dalhousie https://steveblank.com/2017/06/01/commencement-speech-dalhousie-university-may-30th-2017/

  • Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award

    U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business

  • Undergraduate Teaching Award

    Stanford University MS&E Department

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