Steve Blank

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Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur and educator who created the customer development method from which the lean startup movement grew. Between 1978 and 2002 he worked at eight technology startups and founded or co-founded four of them, the last being E.piphany in 1996. At Stanford he created the Lean LaunchPad class in 2011, which the National Science Foundation adopted as its I-Corps curriculum, and in 2016 he co-created Hacking for Defense with Joe Felter.

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