Steve Blank

I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered.

Announcing a Lean Educators Conference.

This article previously appeared in Cipher Brief.

You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught.

We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford.

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries.

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.

This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief.

This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.

Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space.

Join us at The 7th Annual Red Queen Conference April 22 -23 – Silicon Valley How do Portfolio Acquisition Executives and COCOMs ensure they’re working on the right problem with the right priority before locking in a requirement?

Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true.

What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new event creates a wake-up call that makes founding engineers…

When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened.

This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private…

TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here.

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).

I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner.

The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2.

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities.

Great founders shine in a crisis.

Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory.

How did you go bankrupt?”