Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) Reply LW , on August 6, 2009 at 2:00 am Said: Agreed with The Chad.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

my hotel room was stacked with the journals and textbooks about each vertical market just to keep up with the people we were meeting. (I Lessons learned : To sell to customers you need to understand them: how they work, what they do and what problem you will solve for them. You can’t understand customers from inside your building.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

I had to decide what I wanted to do with my career – go back to ESL, try to work for the Customer, or stay at Zilog? While it may seem like an easy choice, few people who love technology and who work on black projects leave. These technologies which allowed the U.S. These projects are incredibly seductive. Let me explain why.

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