Steve Blank Podcast

By Steve Blank

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Steve Blank is the originator of customer development & godfather of the #leanstartup; this is his podcast.

Episode Date
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
Apr 17, 2024
Is a $100 Million Enough?
Mar 05, 2024
Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market
Feb 24, 2024
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up
Feb 09, 2024
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates
Jan 17, 2024
The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done
Jan 17, 2024
Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets
Nov 09, 2023
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2
Oct 30, 2023
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1
Oct 13, 2023
Profound Beliefs
Sep 08, 2023
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
Aug 31, 2023
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
Jul 30, 2023
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
Apr 30, 2023
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT
Apr 04, 2023
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
Feb 16, 2023
Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Jan 19, 2023
Be Where Your Business Is
Jan 14, 2023
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
Jan 10, 2023
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
Dec 05, 2022
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education & Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption
Nov 15, 2022
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation
Nov 12, 2022
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
Oct 29, 2022
Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry
Oct 01, 2022
National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up
Sep 17, 2022
Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO
Jun 22, 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
Jun 04, 2022
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China
May 31, 2022
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
May 08, 2022
What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center
May 01, 2022
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained
Apr 19, 2022
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
Apr 12, 2022
What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many
Apr 09, 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up
Jan 18, 2022
I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
Jan 09, 2022
The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford
Jan 07, 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber
Jan 05, 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space
Jan 05, 2022
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy
Jan 02, 2022
When There Seems to Be No Way Out – Customer Discovery for Your Head
Dec 22, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning
Dec 20, 2021
How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery
Nov 17, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors
Nov 15, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3 – Russia
Oct 31, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 2
Oct 28, 2021
Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition
Oct 12, 2021
Lead and Disrupt
Oct 06, 2021
Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
Oct 03, 2021
The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught
Aug 06, 2021
Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology
Aug 03, 2021
You Don’t Need Permission
Jun 16, 2021
Your Product is Not Their Problem
Jun 05, 2021
These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation
May 26, 2021
Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups
May 21, 2021
A Path to the Minimum Viable Product
May 01, 2021
E Pluribus Unum – A Rallying Cry for National Service
Apr 16, 2021
Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?
Apr 06, 2021
Hacking for Allies
Apr 04, 2021
When National Security Falls Between the Cracks
Mar 15, 2021
Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance
Mar 14, 2021
Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired
Mar 12, 2021
Lessons for the New Administration – Technology, Innovation, and Modern War
Mar 12, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Wrap Up
Mar 11, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis
Feb 20, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall
Feb 19, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord
Feb 18, 2021
The Rapture Happened but I Wasn’t Called
Feb 17, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher
Feb 16, 2021
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 13 – ONR– Rear Admiral Lorin Selby
Nov 29, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond
Nov 18, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal
Nov 17, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy
Nov 16, 2020
Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 9 – Autonomy – Maynard Holliday
Nov 15, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani
Nov 14, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan
Nov 14, 2020
Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper
Nov 13, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose
Nov 08, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby
Nov 07, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel
Nov 04, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot
Nov 03, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 - Ash Carter
Sep 28, 2020
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War
Sep 12, 2020
Hacking 4 Recovery – Time to Take A Shot
Aug 23, 2020
Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic
Aug 23, 2020
Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers
Jun 25, 2020
The Coming Chip Wars
Jun 20, 2020
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations
Jun 13, 2020
The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct
May 22, 2020
Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery
May 22, 2020
What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human
Apr 28, 2020
In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life
Apr 18, 2020
Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus
Apr 08, 2020
The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
Apr 04, 2020
How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
Apr 04, 2020
Action Today for CFO’s
Mar 22, 2020
You’re Not Important to Me but I Want To Meet With You
Mar 07, 2020
How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event
Mar 07, 2020
Clayton Christensen
Mar 07, 2020
Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
Nov 12, 2019
How to Convince Investors You’re the Future not the Past
Oct 29, 2019
Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation
Oct 16, 2019
Who Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit
Oct 08, 2019
AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile
Sep 17, 2019
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019
Jun 08, 2019
The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation
Jun 02, 2019
How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset
May 10, 2019
Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad
Apr 12, 2019
The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different
Mar 29, 2019
Fast Time in Three Horizon High
Mar 02, 2019
How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows
Nov 15, 2018
Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety
Oct 31, 2018
What Your Startup Needs to Know About Regulated Markets
Oct 11, 2018
The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare
Sep 28, 2018
The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law
Sep 14, 2018
Is the Lean Startup Dead?
Sep 07, 2018
This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make Or Break Your Career
Jul 23, 2018
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe
Jun 08, 2018
The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
Jun 07, 2018
Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant
May 03, 2018
Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
Apr 11, 2018
The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Apr 03, 2018
Leadership is More Than a Memo
Mar 19, 2018
CoinOut Gets Coin In
Feb 21, 2018
Innovation at Speed – when you have 2 million employees
Feb 13, 2018
Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America
Feb 02, 2018
Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors
Nov 04, 2017
The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community
Oct 19, 2017
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean
Oct 12, 2017
Removing the Roadblocks to Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice
Sep 21, 2017
How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right
Sep 19, 2017
Working Outside the Tech Bubble
Aug 17, 2017
National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington
Jul 21, 2017
Why good people leave large tech companies
Jul 11, 2017
Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”
Jun 30, 2017
Tesla Lost $700 Million Last Year, So Why Is Tesla’s Valuation $60 Billion?
Jun 20, 2017
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Jun 20, 2017
Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life
May 11, 2017
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications
Apr 07, 2017
Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together
Mar 31, 2017
Why Some Startups Win
Mar 20, 2017
The No Excuses Culture
Mar 10, 2017
Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy
Mar 04, 2017
Innovation – something both parties can agree on
Mar 04, 2017
The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development
Dec 21, 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department
Dec 21, 2016
What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession
Dec 04, 2016
Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup
Nov 23, 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice
Nov 23, 2016
How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture
Nov 13, 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns
Nov 09, 2016
The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy
Nov 03, 2016
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
Oct 28, 2016
The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company
Oct 14, 2016
The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)
Sep 23, 2016
Working Hard is not the same as working smart
Sep 23, 2016
Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad
Sep 23, 2016
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean
Sep 23, 2016
Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class
Aug 03, 2016
Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)
Jul 30, 2016
Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 1 of 2)
Jul 29, 2016
Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it
Jun 24, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
Jun 06, 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9
Jun 01, 2016
NYU Commencement Speech 2016
May 25, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7
May 18, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6
May 17, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5
May 04, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4
Apr 27, 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3
Apr 22, 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2
Apr 15, 2016
Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 1
Apr 07, 2016
What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking
Apr 05, 2016
Learning Through Reflection
Mar 25, 2016
The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations
Feb 24, 2016
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place
Jan 29, 2016
How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost
Jan 21, 2016
Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
Dec 26, 2015
How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works
Dec 20, 2015
Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is
Dec 20, 2015
Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D
Dec 20, 2015
Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation
Dec 20, 2015
Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and Companies
Sep 10, 2015
Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance
Aug 27, 2015
The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins
Jul 11, 2015
Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work
Jun 26, 2015
Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
May 21, 2015
Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
May 14, 2015
Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work
May 08, 2015
How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People
May 01, 2015
Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley
Apr 03, 2015
Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation
Mar 19, 2015
Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation
Mar 12, 2015
Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School
Mar 05, 2015
Life Science Startups Rising in the UK
Feb 21, 2015
What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle
Feb 17, 2015
When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check
Feb 04, 2015
It’s About Women Running Startups
Jan 22, 2015
Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!
Jan 02, 2015
I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine
Dec 19, 2014
The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland
Dec 12, 2014
Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad
Nov 22, 2014
Why Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die
Nov 12, 2014
Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook
Nov 02, 2014
The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design
Oct 27, 2014
Watching My Students Grow
Oct 07, 2014
Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner
Oct 01, 2014
The Woodstock of K-12 Education
Sep 25, 2014
How To Find the Right Co-Founders?
Sep 18, 2014
Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same
Sep 17, 2014
How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle
Sep 12, 2014
Why Founders Should Know How to Code
Sep 05, 2014
Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould
Aug 09, 2014
Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development
Aug 05, 2014
Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom
Jul 30, 2014
The Path of Our Lives
Jul 10, 2014
How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level
Jul 03, 2014
I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum
Jun 28, 2014
Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH
Jun 21, 2014
Hostages Strapped to the Tank: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 2
Jun 19, 2014
Farming for Developers: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 1
Jun 12, 2014
Three Things I Learned on Commencement Day
May 31, 2014
Innovating Municipal Government Culture
Apr 29, 2014
New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes
Apr 28, 2014
Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?
Apr 24, 2014
If I Told You I’d Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley”
Mar 31, 2014
SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at Work
Mar 31, 2014
SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone’s Job
Mar 29, 2014
SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within
Mar 26, 2014
Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups
Mar 26, 2014
SuperMac War Story 1: Joining SuperMac
Mar 25, 2014
There’s a Pattern Here
Mar 24, 2014
Out of the Ashes – Something Isn’t Quite Right
Mar 23, 2014
The Product Development Model
Mar 22, 2014
Retirement and Redemption
Mar 21, 2014
You’re Just the Founder
Mar 20, 2014
Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2
Mar 19, 2014
The Seven Days of Christmas
Mar 19, 2014
The End of Innocence
Mar 17, 2014
He’s Only in Field Service
Mar 16, 2014
Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
Mar 15, 2014
Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby
Mar 14, 2014
Gravity Will be Turned Off
Mar 14, 2014
When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
Jun 10, 2013
Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps
Jun 14, 2012