MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 273
TECHNOLOGY VENTURE FORMATION

  
   
 
   
 

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Steve Blank
E-mail: sblank@kandsranch.com
Lecturer
Management Science and Engineering
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Mr. Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 28 years of experience
in high technology companies and general management as a founder and
executive. He has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley
startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room
in 1996. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and
MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a
supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a
military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company
(Rocket Science Games).

Total score, two large craters (Rocket Science and Ardent), one dot.com
bubble home run (E.piphany) and several base hits.

Concurrently, Mr. Blank teaches at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley
and at the Columbia Business School. There he created the "Customer
Development in High Tech Enterprise" course. He is the author of the course
text "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" (http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch).

Steve is on the board of Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN), as well as two private companies; CafePress.com, an on-line marketplace and IMVU, a 3D IM social network. Steve is also on the board of Audubon National, is Chairman of California Audubon and was appointed by the governor to the California Coastal Commission.