◆ Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician who is based in Pescadero, California.
◆ Blank is recognized for developing the Customer Development methodology, which launched the Lean Startup movement. Blank is also the co-founder of E.piphany.
◆ Blank has spent over thirty years within the high technology industry. He has founded or worked within eight startup companies, four of which have gone public.
◆ Blank teaches and writes about Customer Development and is a consulting associate professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford.He currently lectures at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).