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Essays, blog posts, slides and videos from steve blank, serial entrepreneur and startup academic. Blank is known amongst entrepreneurs and students as one of the godfathers of silicon valley. Steve considered one of the fathers of modern entrepreneurship is a serial entrepreneurturnedbest selling author and educator who has changed the way startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, and how big companies and the u. Bob dorf is a serial entrepreneur, customerdevelopment consultant and. By reading this book, youll gain insight from steve blank, a former silicon valleybased serial entrepreneur and current professor at. Entrepreneurs should read these books as how to books to beat large companies in their own markets. Having passed through the stage of being a moneyoriented maker of things at that point, he says, he began following a credo he learned from an old friend. Eighttime entrepreneur turnededucator steve blank is credited with launching the lean startup movement. Eighttime entrepreneurturnededucator steve blank is credited with launching the lean startup movement. In the book, blank outlines his views about how entrepreneurship is a. The empirical importance of customer development wearebrain. Steve blank is a retired silicon valley serial entrepreneurturnededucator and the author of the four steps to the epiphany. The original lean startup guru describes his entrepreneurial record this.
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