Chad Naming Silicon Valley Vertical 
Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2009
Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. The bill had come due.
Steve Blank
JULY 23, 2009
Reply Chad Albrecht , on July 23, 2009 at 11:23 am Said: Great post! How delightful it would be to have a presidential candidate named Frost. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. You might be interested to know that Frost called this “a tricky poem.&#. Very few of us do. Pols love ambiguity.
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