Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Entrepreneur, Educator

Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur, educator, and author who created the customer development methodology that launched the lean startup movement. He founded or co-founded eight technology startups and authored The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner's Manual. His Lean LaunchPad curriculum became the standard for science commercialisation at the National Science Foundation, and he has taught at Stanford and UC Berkeley.

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Books by Steve Blank

The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank

The Startup Owner's Manual

by Steve Blank

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Blank provides a step-by-step method for building startups by testing business model hypotheses with real customers. The manual turns customer development into repeatable, actionable stages.

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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Blank argues startups fail because they execute business plans instead of searching for viable models. Customer development, discovery, validation, creation, building, replaces premature scaling.

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Most Recommended by Steve

The books Steve Blank references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

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Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.

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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey Moore

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Moore identifies the dangerous gap between early adopters and the mainstream market that kills most tech products. Crossing this chasm requires focusing on a single beachhead segment and dominating it completely.

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The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

The Innovator's Dilemma

by Clayton Christensen

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Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.

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Influence Map

Who Steve draws from, and who draws from Steve — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

Steve cites most often

  1. 1Geoffrey Moore
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  2. 2Eric Ries
    1 link
  3. 3Clayton Christensen
    1 link

Authors who cite Steve most often

  1. 1Tim Brown
    1 link
  2. 2Eric Ries
    1 link