No entrepreneur is more active in the classroom than Blank, who lectures at the University of California—Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering, and the joint Berkeley/Columbia MBA program.
Prior to entering the world of higher education, he co-founded (or was part of) eight startups in the Valley, including Convergent Technologies and E.piphany. The author of "The Startup Owner's Manual," his classes focus on a methodology of starting and managing marketing, sales, and business development in high technology startups.