Steve Blank

Each startup has unique challenges requiring attention to specific issues, and no one understands how to bring such ventures to scale better than Steve Blank. His insightful talks help dozens of entrepreneurs to master the ins and outs of business success.

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Why you should book Steve Blank for your next event

If you want your corporate event to be energized, Steve Blank is the man for the job. He gives actionable tips to help fuel continuous innovation. His audiences get to learn tried-and-tested processes applied by Lean Startups to succeed in business.
Steve is a frequent commencement speaker. National Public Radio listed his speech at Philadelphia University as one of the best commencement speeches, ever. His speaking fee falls within a pocket-friendly range. But that doesn't mean the quality of his keynotes is compromised in any way.
He is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the bestselling Startup Owner’s Manual. His Harvard Business Review cover story on the Lean Startup defined the Lean Startup movement.

Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation
Innovation Corps
and
Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy,
he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Steve has led one heck of an interesting life. He’s had three careers: First, in the U.S. Air Force for four years during the Vietnam War. Next, as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in 8 startups in two decades (with four IPOs).

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Keynotes

Keynote by Steve Blank: Innovation @50x – Moving Companies at Startup Speeds

How big companies can use Lean Startup techniques and processes to remain innovative.

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Keynote by Steve Blank: Dealing With Disruption

How culture, process and people need to adapt and adopt in the world of continuous disruption.

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Keynote by Steve Blank: Entrepreneurship vs. Innovation: What is the Difference and Why Does it Matter?

Steve explains why innovation inside an existing company or the government is different from building a startup, highlighting the different tools and mindsets needed to be a successful innovator or entrepreneur.

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Keynote by Steve Blank: Harnessing Your R&D Department

How every federal research agency adopted Lean Startup methods to commercialize science – 1,500 teams of our best scientists and counting – and learn how your company can as well.

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Keynote by Steve Blank: Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Silicon Valley’s role as an entrepreneurial powerhouse has its roots in the Cold War, not a Palo Alto garage. Steve explains how the Silicon Valley came to be and how you can create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your region.

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Steve Blank

Father of Modern Entrepreneurship

Steve is widely recognized as a thought leader on startups and innovation. Named to the Thinkers50 list of top management thinkers and recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of 12 Masters of Innovation, Steve is also Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University. His Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class is taught in more than 100 universities around the globe. More than 300,000 people have signed up for a free version of the class, offered through Udacity.com.

His Hacking for Defense class at Stanford is revolutionizing how the U.S. defense and intelligence community can deploy innovation with speed and urgency. The class launched a movement in mission-driven entrepreneurship, with sister classes like Hacking for Diplomacy, Hacking for Climate and Sustainability, Hacking for Cities, and Hacking for Recovery - all teaching students to solve real-world challenges at startup speed. Steve’s his latest class at Stanford, Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition, is providing crucial insight on how technology will shape all the elements of national power.

His talk “
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
” has become the standard history of why entrepreneurship blossomed in Silicon Valley while stillborn elsewhere. It has made him an unofficial expert and frequent speaker on the rise of entrepreneurial clusters as well as the role of the US government and military’s influence on entrepreneurship.

From 2006-2013 Steve served as a public official in California as Commissioner on the California Coastal Commission, the public body that regulates land use and public access on the California coast. He is on the board of the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV); is a past board member of Audubon California, the Peninsula Open Space Land Trust (POST); and was a trustee of U.C. Santa Cruz.