Steve Blank Podcast

Updated: 06 May 2025 • 287 episodes
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A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons of time, money and grief.

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Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers.

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Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach.

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19 Apr 2025 • EN

Lying on your resume

It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup.

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Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes.

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I started working when I was 14 (I lied about my age) and counting four years in the Air Force I’ve worked in 12 jobs. I left each one of them when I was bored, ready to move on, got fired, or learned as much as I can. There was only one job that I quit when I feared for my life.

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