Steven Gary Blank

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Steven Gary Blank, usually known as just Steve Blank (b. 1953?), is a retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley. Today he is best known as a teacher at multiple universities. He is also the author of the Customer Development model for early stage companies. This model attempts to view entrepreneurship as a practice that can be managed rather than just purely an art form to be experienced.

1 Business career
2 Teaching
3 Public Service
4 Books
5 References
6 External Links

[edit] Business career

He started his career at 3M/Interactive Systems in Ann Arbor Michigan. Moving to Silicon Valley in 1978 he worked at ESL, Zilog, Convergent Technologies, MIPS Computers, Ardent Computers, and SuperMac Technologies and was founder/CEO of Rocket Science Games and a founder at E.piphany.

[edit] Teaching

Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering, U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School and a joint MBA class with Columbia Business School and Haas.

Blank has collected an informal history of Silicon Valley, which was presented as a Google tech talk called The Secret History of Silicon Valley.^[1]

[edit] Public Service

Blank is the Chairman of Audubon California. He is on the board of Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.) He was appointed to the California Coastal Commission.