Steve Blank Quotes

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'

TechStars is mentorship-driven.

Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.

TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.