Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Steve Blank

Lecturer
Entrepreneurship
415-999-9924
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Academic Status: On Duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F457
Program Group Homepage: http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu

Positions Held

At Haas since 2002

2005 - present Lecturer Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program
2004 - present IMVU Board of Directors
2004 - present Cafepress.com Board of Directors
2002 - present Lecturer Program in Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business

2002 - 2007 Macrovision (NASDQ: MVSN) Board of Directors

1997 - 2005 Immersion (NASDQ: IMMR) Board of Directors
1996 - 1999 E.piphany (NASDQ: EPNY) Co-founder/President/VP Mktg
1993 - 1996 Rocket Science Games CEO
1989 - 1993 SuperMac VP Marketing
1986 - 1989 Ardent Co-founder/VP Marketing
1984 - 1986 Mips Computers Co-founder/VP Marketing
1981 - 1984 Convergent Technologies VP Marketing

External Service and Assignments

2007 - present Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) Board of Directors
Appointed to the California Coastal Commission by Governor Schwarzenegger, February 2007
2005 - present Audubon National Board of Directors
2002 - present Audubon California Board of Directors

Current Research and Interests

Methodology and models for customer-facing activities for early stage startups.

Selected Papers and Publications

"The Secret History of Silicon Valley," invited talk at Google, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
The Four Steps to The Epiphany, http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch

Teaching

XMBA 296.3 Advanced Entrepreneurship
MBA 295T-2 The Entrepreneurship of Broken, Stuck and Unloved Companies
MBA295T-1 Customer Development in High Tech Enterprise
MBA295A Entrepreneurship

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