1999 Redemption Startup Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. After valuation in the video we went through Liquidation Preferences, Board Seats, Protective Provision, Voting Rights, Drag Along Rights, Redemption, Anti-Dilution and a few other key terms.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2011
When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Redemption rights? Every startup needs the knowledge in this book. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this.
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2011
My third story is about Failure and Redemption. Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. With every startup came increasing responsibility.
Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1999-2000 51.6%
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