Steve Blank

Steve Blank is the co-founder of GLIDR (business/manufacturing software). He is also a co-founder of M34 Capital. He was a board member of Together Labs. He works as a mentor at Engineering Capital. He has a 36-year career as a successful entrepreneur and educator. He has been an advisor to Engineering Capital and Gamalon. He also serves on the advisory board of Synapse Partners. He has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups. His most recent startup, E.piphany, was in enterprise software. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems provider (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games). His book on building early-stage companies: Four Steps to an Epiphany, launched the Lean Startup movement. His next book, The Startup Owners Manual, became the standard guide to starting a company. He has taught entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia University and UCSF since 2000. His Lean LaunchPad course, modified for the NSF Innovation Corps and the National Institutes of Health, has become the standard for experiential entrepreneurship education. He has served on the board of directors of Udacity.