A fun interview at Stanford about some old things and new ones.



https://soundcloud.com/innovatorsradio/s1e5-steve-blank-lean-startup
Founders
2:15: Founders and dysfunctional families
3:55: Operating in chaos
7:18: Mentorship is a two-way street
11:50: Founders are artists
14:03: Failure=experience
17:27: Rules for raising a family if you’re a founder
Startups
19:25: Startups are not smaller versions of large companies
22:03: How I-Corps and H4X were born
26:25: Your idea is not a company
31:19: Why the old way of building startups no longer works
32:53: Origin of the Lean Startup
34:24 Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything in the Harvard Business Review
35:28: How innovation happens
Company/Government Innovation
41:37: Innovation is different in companies and gov’t agencies
42:35 The Innovation Pipeline
43:30  Deliverable products and services not activities
44:25  GE & Procter and Gamble and Lean
46:44: Startups disrupting things by breaking the law
Government Innovation
51:12: Fighting continuous disruption with continuous innovation
52:08: How governments innovate
53:58: The U.S. government goes Lean
56:00: Customer Development versus Design Thinking
57:54: Innovation from the battlefield to the boardroom