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Steve Blank
Customer Development, Lean Startup foundations
Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker. He created the customer development method that launched the lean startup movement. His work has influenced modern entrepreneurship through the creation of tools and processes for new ventures which differ from those used in large companies.
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Frameworks
Attributed to Steve Blank
Mental models, principles, and operating frameworks extracted from sources where Steve is the credited author or speaker.
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Blank and Dorf Four-Step Startup Search
Get out of the building and test your business model hypotheses before scaling
Entrepreneurship·from The Startup Owner's Manual (Blank & Dorf)
Customer Development Four-Step Search Process
Get out of the building and test your business model hypotheses before scaling
Entrepreneurship·from The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank
Customer Development Process
Get out of the building and test your business model hypotheses before scaling
Entrepreneurship·from The Startup Owner's Manual
Customer Discovery
Get out of the building to test whether your hypotheses about customers and their problems are correct
Entrepreneurship·from The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Customer Validation
Prove you have a repeatable and scalable sales process by getting customers to actually buy
Entrepreneurship·from The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Market Type Analysis
Determine whether you are entering an existing market, creating a new market, or resegmenting an existing market to choose the right strategy
Strategy·from The Four Steps to the Epiphany
The Customer Development Model
Get out of the building and test your business model hypotheses before scaling
Entrepreneurship·from The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
The Customer Development Process
Four iterative steps to find and validate a scalable business model before scaling the company
Entrepreneurship·from The Four Steps to the Epiphany
The Pivot
When customer validation fails, change direction based on what you learned rather than pressing forward on a broken plan
Strategy·from The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Domains
Framework distribution
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Entrepreneurship7 frameworks · 77.8%
Strategy2 frameworks · 0%
Bibliography
Sources by Steve Blank
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Book
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Book·10 frameworks extracted
The Startup Owner's Manual
Book·2 frameworks extracted
The Startup Owner's Manual (Blank & Dorf)
Book·2 frameworks extracted
The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
Book·2 frameworks extracted
The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank
Book·2 frameworks extracted
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Book
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Steve Blank)
Book
Appears alongside
Top neighbors of Steve Blank
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Adam Brandenburger
Co-opetition, value nets, game-theoretic strategy
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02Alfred Chandler
Strategy and Structure ("structure follows strategy")
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03Andrew Campbell
Parenting Advantage, corporate-level strategy
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04Andy Grove
Strategic Inflection Points, Only the Paranoid Survive
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05Anita McGahan
Industry change trajectories (radical, progressive, creative, intermediating)
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06Annabelle Gawer
Platform Leadership, industry platforms (with Cusumano)
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07Barry Nalebuff
Co-opetition, game theory in business
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08Bharat Anand
Content Trap, connections-over-content strategy
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Last updated
10 May 2026