Books by Steve Blank

Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and an entrepreneurship scholar based in Pescadero, California. Blank is recognized for developing the Customer Development methodology, which laid the foundation for the Lean Startup movement. The author is also the co-founder of E.piphany. Blank has been in the technology industry for over thirty years. He founded or worked on eight startup companies, four of which went public. Blank Tech's Tech Talk, The Secret History of Silicon Valley, offers a broadly accepted insight into Silicon Valley's emerging startup innovation. Blank has published three books: The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost and The Startup Owner's Manual. Blank teaches and writes about Customer Development and is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford. Currently, he teaches at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Steve Blank

“The Four Steps to the Epiphany” was first published in the early 2000s and started the lean startup revolution. It changed the way the founding and execution of startups was approached by shifting the focus from the product to the customer. Focus on product development works for big, established companies who already have a customer base to work with – but a startup needs to focus on building a customer base to be able to make the leap to becoming a successful company first.

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