Quotes by Steve Blank

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

First and deadliest of all is a founder's unwavering belief that he or she understands who the customers will be, what they need, and how to sell it to them.

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

At the intersection of food science and technology, food replacement startups are creating substitutes for the basic components of meals as well as replacements for complete meals.

When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.

What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.

Visionary CEOs don't need someone else to demo the company's key products for them. They deeply understand products, and they have their own coherent and consistent vision of where the industry/business models and customers are today, and where they need to take the company.