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Ray Zinn
The No-VC Semiconductor Company
Posted on Monday, Dec 7th
An adapted excerpt from Tough Things First by Guest Author Ray Zinn Micrel was launched on my personal credit. I wanted to avoid venture capital and family loans when starting my semiconductor company, so I approached three different banks. I knew that banks didn’t lend to start-ups with unproven management teams and no products. But
Blindness and Entrepreneurial Vision
Posted on Friday, Oct 16th
An excerpt from Tough Things First by Guest Author Ray Zinn Of all bodily senses, eyesight is the most essential. I lost mine shortly before Micrel issued its initial public offering. I was in London on a leg of our IPO roadshow, where Micrel senior management was engaging investors in the last months before we
