Steve Blank
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Between 1978 and 2002, Blank worked at eight different technology startups, founding, or co-founding, four of them.
Blank created the Lean Launchpad class and I-Corps curriculum which became the standard for science commercialization for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy. As of 2023, more than 3,051 teams and 1,300 startups have employed Blank’s methodologies.
Blank is co-creator of the U.S. Department of Defense'sHacking for Defense program, and served on the Defense Business Boardand the U.S. Navy’s Science and Technological Board. He is co-creator of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University. Provided by Wikipedia
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