Steve Blank, How Customer Discovery and Lean Are Keys to Navigate These Radically Changed Times - InnovaBuzz 326
In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank, the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Steve is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, The Startup Owner’s Manual, and his May 2013 Harvard Business Review cover story defined the Lean Startup movement. He teaches at Stanford and at Columbia University, where he is a Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship, and created the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, which is now the standard for science commercialization in the U.S. His Hacking for Defense class at Stanford is revolutionizing how the U.S. defense and intelligence community can deploy innovation with speed and urgency, and its sister classes, including Hacking for Diplomacy, Hacking for Oceans, Hacking for Local, are doing the same for other real-world challenges. In our discussion, Steve talked to me about: Being a fact-based rather than faith-based business. Why customer discovery and Lean Methodology are more important than ever in these radically changed times What businesses can do to reinvent and reimagine themselves for the post-COVID world Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog The Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.