Steve Blank Quotes

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

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

Confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea.

Number one is "Do you have curiosity?" Number two is "Does it translate to imagination?" But number three is "Did it translate to action?" That’s the difference between someone with an idea and someone who is an entrepreneur.

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

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.

Young entrepreneurs tend to be fearless and have no respect for the status quo, and that’s exactly what you need in an environment where the status quo is going to put you out of business.

The Silicon Valley culture is "I can win and you can win" - it isn't a sum-zero game.

Mentorship is a two-way street. While I was learning from them [brilliant mentors] - and their years of experience and expertise - what I was giving back was equally important. I brought fresh insights and new perspectives to their thinking.

Strategy Is not a to-do list.

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.

Only because earlyvangelists are buying into your total vision will they spend money for an incomplete, buggy, barely functions first product.

Innovation comes from those who see things that other don’t.

While there is an occasional bad apple, the public market rewards companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

Startups demand comfort with chaos, uncertainty and change.