Steve Blank: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I’ve watched how, in a blink of an eye, technology went from products used by the very few, to ending up in the pockets of billions, bringing social change and corporate disruption.”

Steve Blank

Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)

Change

“The Silicon Valley entrepreneurial culture used to be limited to a few entrepreneurial clusters. Now the Internet has spread that culture everywhere.”

Steve Blank

Interview with Steve Blank (2013)

“Founders fit the definition of a composer: they see something no one else does. And to help them create it from nothing, they surround themselves with world-class performers.”

Steve Blank

Forbes "Entrepreneurship is an Art Not a Job" http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2013/03/29/entrepreneurship-is-an-art-not-a-job/#754e53231d5b. March 29, 2013.

World , Help

“Build it and they will come” is not a strategy; it’s a prayer.”

Steve Blank

Forbes "How To Test The Assumption That People Actually Want Your Product" https://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2016/06/14/how-to-test-the-assumption-that-people-actually-want-your-product/#420ab8f74217. June 14, 2016.

“Market type influences everything a company does.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 39.

“Customer Discovery is damn hard work. You can't fake it.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 50.

“A startup is not a smaller version of a large company.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. xvii.

“Light a path for the better angels. The world is counting on you.”

Steve Blank

Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)

World , Angels , Light

“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 11.

“Startups demand comfort with chaos, uncertainty and change.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 44.

Change

“The question is whether you'll tell your children that this decade was the beginning of a new dark age, or whether it was the time of something new and wonderful.”

Steve Blank

Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)

Children , Age , Question , Time

“No business plan survives its first contact with customers.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 53.

Business

“There are several generations of Silicon Valley CEOs who "pay-it-forward." It’s an understood, underground thing you don’t talk about. You give back to younger founders and entrepreneurs without asking for anything. The goal is to pass on what we learned to make our startup ecosystem better.”

Steve Blank

Interview with Steve Blank (2013)

Learning

“Only a few generations have been granted the role of determining whether a revolution in communication will allow our better angels – or our darker angels – to win. You leave here with incredible opportunity, but also with immense responsibility.”

Steve Blank

Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)

Angels , Communication

“Don't believe your own b. s. It's real easy to confuse funding with success.”

Steve Blank

Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.

Success

“The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 91.

Question

“The #1 change in Silicon Valley is information density. If you think about it, 30 years ago the only way you got info was during one-on-one meetings. You knew very little and the world knew very little. We just know a lot more now.”

Steve Blank

Interview with Steve Blank (2013)

World , Way , Thinking , Change

“Great entrepreneurs are revolutionaries. They speak truth to power. They change the status quo. They rebel against what exists. If you want to see what country will create the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, see how they treat their dissidents.”

Steve Blank

Interview with Steve Blank (2013)