Steve Blank Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation
Steve Blankby steve blank8d ago
You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
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top 22%Steve Blank The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t
Steve Blankby steve blank10d ago
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.
Steve Blank AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP
Steve Blankby steve blank13d ago
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.
Steve Blank The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same
Steve Blankby steve blank15d ago
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught.
Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
Steve Blankby steve blank16 Jun 2026
We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radical idea – that the Lean method could provide a more productive framework for new...
Steve Blank Incorruptible
Steve Blankby steve blank9 Jun 2026
Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries. Every once in a while a book comes along that doesn’t just change your tactical thinking, but makes you...
Steve Blank Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Steve Blankby steve blank8 Jun 2026
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Hacking for Defense is now in 70 universities, including 20+ in the UK – and this year in Poland and Germany – with teams of students...
Steve Blank Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
Steve Blankby steve blank28 Apr 2026
This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief. For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant...
Steve Blank AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
Steve Blankby steve blank22 Apr 2026
This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.
Steve Blank Nowhere Is Safe
Steve Blankby steve blank9 Apr 2026
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S.
Steve Blank Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
Steve Blankby steve blank31 Mar 2026
The Department of War is in the midst of the most ambitious acquisition reform in 60 years. It’s just in time as drone and missile warfare lessons (autonomy, Counter UAS, etc.)
Steve Blank Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
Steve Blankby steve blank17 Mar 2026
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.
Steve Blank Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
Steve Blankby steve blank24 Feb 2026
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...
Steve Blank You Only Think They Work For You
Steve Blankby steve blank18 Feb 2026
When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors.
Steve Blank Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
Steve Blankby steve blank10 Feb 2026
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.
Steve Blank Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War
Steve Blankby steve blank3 Feb 2026
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...
Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed
Steve Blankby steve blank11 Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).
Steve Blank It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy
Steve Blankby steve blank30 Oct 2025
I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing tactics on how to make the VP of Sales the richest person in the company.
Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
Steve Blankby steve blank13 Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists?
Steve Blank When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis
Steve Blankby steve blank17 Sept 2025
Great founders shine in a crisis. Ordinary ones watch their companies burn down. I just had coffee with two co-founders of an e-bike company who were mentoring one of our student teams.