As part of this year’s Canada’s Business Model Competition, the Starting Lean Initiative and Dalhousie University are excited to announce that we will be hosting a fireside chat with Steve Blank. This will be held in the Potter Auditorium at the Kenneth Rowe School of Business  at 4 pm on Friday, March 14th .

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded or participated in eight Silicon Valley startups. Of these startups, four have gone public. After 21 successful years in the business world, he retired and wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual. He also developed the Lean Launchpad canvas and is credited as one of the primary instigators of the Lean Startup movement. Steve teaches entrepreneurship to both graduate and undergraduate students at U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, Stanford University, Caltech and University of California San Francisco.