Steve Blank é um empreendedor em série do Vale do Silício e um acadêmico de empreendedorismo baseado em Pescadero, California.Blank é reconhecido pelo desenvolvimento da metodologia Customer Development, que lançou as bases para o movimento Lean Startup. Blank é também o co-fundador de E.piphany.Blank esteve por mais de trinta anos na indústria da tecnologia. Ele fundou ou trabalhou em oito companhias startups, quatro das quais vieram a público.O Google Tech Talk de Blank, A História Secreta do Vale do Silício, oferece uma profunda perspectiva amplamente aceita sobre a emergente inovação de startups do Vale do Silício. Blank publicou três livros: The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost e The Startup Owner's Manual.Blank ensina e escreve sobre Customer Development e é professor consultor associado de empreendedorismo em Stanford. Atualmente, ele leciona em Haas School of Business, Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, Columbia University e California Institute of Technology . Wikipedia
“There are no facts inside the building, so get the hell outside.”
Forbes "Try 'Walking The Path' To Solve Your Startup Problems" http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/10/27/try-walking-the-path-to-solve-your-startup-problems/#6cb0ab3a5c64. October 27, 2015.
“The Silicon Valley culture is "I can win and you can win" - it isn't a sum-zero game.”
Interview with Steve Blank (2013)
“Strategy Is not a to-do list.”
Entrepreneur "Strategy is Not a To-do List" https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238513 October 16, 2014.
Discussing the seven waves (the invention of speech, the written word, the printing press, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet)
Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.
“To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy.”
VentureBeat "‘Blank’s Rule’: To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy" https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/19/blanks-rule-to-predict-the-future-13-of-your-team-needs-to-be-crazy/. December 19, 2015.
“In Silicon Valley, we have a special word for a failed entrepreneur – it’s called experienced.”
University of Minnesota commencement speech, FounderLY http://www.founderly.com/2013/05/university-of-minnesota-commencement-speech. May 06, 2013.
Interview with Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/08/when-startups-scrapped-the-business-plan.html.3 August 2017
“Customers don't ask to see your business plan.”
Not All Who Wander Are Lost, K&S Ranch, 2010, p. 40.
“Building your product is easy. The hard part is getting customers.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 147.
“Innovation comes from those who see things that other don’t.”
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.
“Progress and stability are mutually exclusive.”
Tweet https://twitter.com/sgblank/status/792843860506320897 at twitter.com/sgblank, 30 Oct. 2016, 10:41 PM
“If you're afraid to fail in a startup, you're destined to do so.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 33.
Steve Blank in interview with Jake Cook, "Steve Blank: Lessons From 35 Years of Making Startups Fail Less" http://99u.com/articles/7256/steve-blank-lessons-from-35-years-of-making-startups-fail-less, U99 website, 2013.
Steve Blank, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, K&S Ranch, 2010, p. 54.
“The best startups discover a situation where customers have tried to build a solution themselves.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 86.
Fonte: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 83
Startup Grind "70,000 tests later, Steve Blank knows how your startup can fail" https://medium.com/startup-grind/70-000-tests-later-steve-blank-knows-how-your-startup-can-fail-81e316baecca#.niap677nt. June 15, 2016.
Forbes "Entrepreneurship is an Art Not a Job" http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2013/03/29/entrepreneurship-is-an-art-not-a-job/#754e53231d5b. March 29, 2013.
“Build it and they will come” is not a strategy; it’s a prayer.”
Forbes "How To Test The Assumption That People Actually Want Your Product" https://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2016/06/14/how-to-test-the-assumption-that-people-actually-want-your-product/#420ab8f74217. June 14, 2016.
“Market type influences everything a company does.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 39.
“Customer Discovery is damn hard work. You can't fake it.”
Fonte: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 50.
“A startup is not a smaller version of a large company.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. xvii.
“Light a path for the better angels. The world is counting on you.”
Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 11.
“Startups demand comfort with chaos, uncertainty and change.”
Fonte: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 44.
