Steve Bennet

Startup CFO, Angel Investor, Professor. Fan of SF Giants, Caps, Dubs, THFC, LUFC. Passionate about education + entrepreneurship + golf. Penn/UCLA grad

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@JohnCarreyrou just ran across a draper family MySpace post from 2004 defending family friend Ken Lay who was taking bad rap

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@MediaKing Putting angel in quotes is right on as you weren’t angel investing but providing income for syndicate lead. Would be much better investing directly in venture fund or going direct on cap table. Angel investing not easy and most lose $$

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@boardyai @andrewdsouza building fractional CFO and diligence support for early-stage founders through Bodega Partners, plus teaching entrepreneurship at SJSU. need Boardy Pro for this

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@vkhosla Sure. Interested in take on this. KV led our Series Seed for our fintech credit card. ApplePay's launch made our path hard and we worked with your partner Keith on pivot for 6 months. Lined up investors and last minute you made call to pull out of round forcing us to go ABC.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@NickNoss27 @USGA @PGAChampionship @SouthernOhioPGA @BenKernGolf @PGA @ohiogolf Definitely would've been a PCC adjustment if enough scores posted that day

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@Matt_Schulman1 Think you mean Frisco. That's what all the locals call the city now...

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

Got subscription bombed a few days ago. In the middle of all the subscription confirms was a ticket purchased on Alaska Air using miles. Glad I didn't mass delete the hundreds of emails or would've missed.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@kevg1412 I’m an LP in dozens of funds over the last few decades and have rarely seen anyone interested in cross fund investments. In a second fund you typically want a significant number of new LPs who wouldn’t want to see $ go to existing portfolio

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@pmitu I've always advised my students that there are two buckets:

1. Entrepreneurs who have made money for that investor or other investors in their network

2. Everyone else

Bucket 1 can raise without traction. Bucket 2 can't.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@ivyavocado @MartinGTobias You should reach out to Jessica Kamada at Swizzle Ventures. Invests early in women's health and wealth.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@MartinGTobias Yup. Had one where we worked with lead investor (big name firm) for 9 months on pivot. Built product, lined up investor syndicate, ready to launch when lead changes mind. Forced in to an ABC. Could’ve made decision earlier and saved a couple million bucks

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

I’ve been getting a ton of emails from Boardy Boardman about connecting me with founders raising capital. Has anyone ever responded to this AI agent? Just curious.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

Had a great time joining @jeremyalmond & @megancguy on the @reDeFined_talks podcast.
We covered a lot—early crypto adoption, blockchain in treasury strategy, and what I’m seeing from students and startups at the edge of finance and tech.
🎧 Worth a listen.
https://t.co/KdaVSLm89m

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@Mike_kim714 Go Bears!

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@MartinGTobias So few do first part of 3. Partially because I’ve been around so long and seen so many of the past failures, I always ask and rarely get answers.

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

Love this solution for aging in place. When I was at IControl Networks 20 years ago this is one of the use cases we evaluated. There was a wifi connected teapot that was popular in Japan. If parent made daily tea, kids knew everything was ok.

[Andrew Farah @andrewfarah]

Today we're announcing Routines. A new project from Density

Routines is designed to help older Americans live independently longer

It's a radar sensor + ai agent that anonymously measures:

> caregiver arrival (in home or facility)
> unexpected absence
> and real-time routine

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@Yuki__Soma @GolferHD @NUCLRGOLF Minus 11 makes sense for a 50 man scramble over 9 holes assuming two reachable par 5s and no hole outs from fairway

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@jefielding I wrote about this 10 years ago. The more things change the more they stay the same...sigh
https://t.co/hlaHUQG1p6

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@SHistorians @Top100Rick I know guys in my club who do that with course wide open so they don't have to post score

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

So, trying to get tax refund issue resolved with FTB. They want me to fax them a bunch of supporting docs? It’s almost 2025 and FTB still requires faxes? When I asked if I could send by telegram instead, she suggested I go to Home Depot to fax. I can do on my computer, but WTF!!

[Steve Bennet @ProfessorVC]

@michelletandler Is it a smear campaign or that is impossible to avoid a stream of Elon tweets every time you log on.? That’s my issue. Would love real dialog.