Steve Blank Biography

Steve Blank is a former serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of expertise in high-tech management and enterprises. He is a Stanford Graduate School of Engineering STVP Program Consulting Professor. Since 1978, Steve has founded or participated in eight Silicon Valley firms. His most recent venture, E.piphany, began in his home room. Among his other ventures are two semiconductor firms (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation firm (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral provider (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL), and a video game company (Rocket Science Games). Steve now serves on the boards of CafePress.com, an online marketplace, and IMVU, a 3D IM social network. Steve was appointed to the California Coastal Commission by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he also serves as Chairman of Audubon California and on the board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.) His Google Tech lecture, "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" (available on YouTube), is one of the canonical perspectives on Silicon Valley's early history of invention. Steve teaches entrepreneurship as well as a marketing, sales, and business development technique for high-tech firms. His course manual "Four Steps to the Epiphany" is the fundamental work on Customer Development and one of the Lean Startups foundations.

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