The Introduction of Steve Blank

Steve Blank is the premier entrepreneurial guru, first proposed the concept of customer development of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, his pioneering theories affect a large number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, setting off a wave of Silicon Valley Lean Startup. Students under his influence, including Eric Ries, (author of "Lean Startup"), Nathan Furr (author of "targeted"), and Ash Maurya (author of "Running Lean").

Eight times despite serial entrepreneur Steve has retired, but his insight, that the idea of ​​start-ups is anything but miniature version of the large enterprises, are reshaping the way of start-up companies to develop teaching Entrepreneurship. He observed facts - implementation of the business model of large-scale enterprises, start-ups looking for a business model - made him realize, start-up companies need a set of their own, and manage a completely different development tools mature companies.

Steve first tool for start-ups, customer development, gave birth to the Lean Startup movement. The basic principles of customer development in Blanc's first work "entrepreneurial four-step" (2003) and their personal blog www. Detailed description steveblank.com. These basic principles have been recognized as global entrepreneurs, investors and businesses must-read content.

Blank at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business, Columbia University professor clients develop and Entrepreneurship, his customer development process in universities around the world there are people in the teaching. 2011, Blanc has introduced a lean business model courses (Lean LaunchPad), which is a fast, actual customer interaction and business model iteration, the business model the empirical formula curriculum design and customer development theory into practice. Innovation team project in the same year, the U.S. National Foundation for the adoption of this course of Blanc's top scientists and engineers in the United States for training, to help them to bring out new ideas the university laboratory into the commercial market.

Steve is a prolific writer and successful orator, he was very fond experience to impart to the young entrepreneurs. In 2009, Steve was awarded the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award; won the 2010 Earl Chet Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award granted by the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. "San Jose Mercury News" vote Silicon Valley 10 Most Influential People in one. Despite winning many awards, Steve called high school in New York, has been named the "least likely to succeed".