Steve Blank

Steve Blank is currently an advisor at Synapse Partners. Steve has also served as a lecturer at Imperial College London, New York University, and UCSF. In addition, they have been a senior fellow at Columbia Business School and a founding faculty member of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University.

From May 2020 to December 2020, Steve Blank served on the Defense Business Board for the United States Department of Defense. In this role, they were responsible for www.mips.com/.

From January 2015 to December 2016, Steve Blank was a lecturer at Imperial College London, where they developed the Lean LaunchPad curriculum for synthetic biology course http://steveblank.com/2015/02/19/life-science-startups-rising-in-the-uk/.

From September 2014 to September 2016, Steve Blank was a lecturer at New York University. In this role, they developed the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps curriculum (an adaptation of my Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.) Recruited teaching team, taught first two cohorts. Co-Prinicpal Investigator for the U.C. Berkeley Innovation Corps node.