The Realities of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Steve Blank

The London Business School Entrepreneurship Club provides a forum for students to network and share ideas, promotes an environment that will foster innovation and entrepreneurship, and helps students cultivate and develop their own ideas. Whether in the context of starting their own business or working for a firm with an entrepreneurial culture, the club endeavours to help students make the most of their time at business school and to equip them for the challenges they face after graduation.

London Business School Entrepreneurship Club

Startup legend Steve Blank shares lessons from failure, success, and the evolution of the Lean Startup.

London Business School - Sammy Ofer Centre LT18/19

We’re bringing Steve Blank, entrepreneur, educator, and Father of the Lean Startup movement, to London Business School for an exclusive fireside chat.Steve has transformed entrepreneurship worldwide. He pioneered the Lean Startup movement, authored the groundbreaking books The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual, and inspired generations of founders by changing the way startups are built and scaled.In this conversation, Steve will share:<ul><li>Lessons from founding eight startups, both the wins and the failures</li><li>How Lean Startup has evolved and what founders still get wrong today</li><li>Breaking points, risk, resilience, and leadership truths</li><li>Hype vs. reality in AI, what every founder should know in 2025 </li></ul>More about Steve Blank:Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship.Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy, he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate.Steve is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual which revolutionized how startups were built. His Harvard Business Review cover story redefined how large companies can innovate at speed.Steve's blogs at: www.steveblank.com.-------------------------------This talk is part of the <a href="https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/institute-of-entrepreneurship-and-private-capital/events/entrepreneurs-journey-series" title="https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/institute-of-entrepreneurship-and-private-capital/events/entrepreneurs-journey-series" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Entrepreneur's Journey </a>series hosted by the <a href="https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/institute-of-entrepreneurship-and-private-capital" title="https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/institute-of-entrepreneurship-and-private-capital" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital</a> and the Entrepreneurship Club at London Business School. The programme is uniquely packaged to take aspiring entrepreneurs through every stage of deciding whether to pursue an entrepreneurial career path, through to implementation of their aspirations and subsequently taking their business to the next level.

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