Steve keen to read the books of history, science and technology, and entrepreneurship related. He always wanted to know why the start-up venture to flourish in Silicon Valley, while in other places it is hard to succeed. It is in this area of tireless research making it in this regard the unofficial experts as well as Silicon Valley Secret History "speech Masters.
Before Steve's point of view is not yet a cause for concern, the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business has provided him the opportunity to teach the customer development process. After the Stanford University School of Engineering cordially invited Steve teaching for the Stanford Technology Venture project with them. He also cooperative MBA program of the Columbia Business School and the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business is the medium of instruction for students. Blinded by misconceptions to countless students to teach customers to develop concepts and processes, Steve entrepreneurial management learning new teaching methods has been well verified. His customer development process in universities around the world there are people in the professor.
In 2009, Steve was awarded the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award; won the 2010 Earl Chet Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award granted by the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. "San Jose Mercury News" vote Silicon Valley 10 Most Influential People in one. Despite winning many awards, Steve called high school in New York, has been named the "least likely to succeed".
In 2011, Steve launched a lean business model courses (Lean LaunchPad), which is a fast, actual customer interaction and business model iteration, the business model the empirical formula curriculum design and customer development theory into practice. Innovation team project in the same year, the U.S. National Foundation for the adoption of this course of Blanc's top scientists and engineers in the United States for training, to help them to bring out new ideas the university laboratory into the commercial market. Lean business model courses will also landed in China.