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).