What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
When pop culture and healthcare combine, it’s divine. At least when it comes to my blog inspiration. There’s little I like more than when an idea sparks from a movie, music or other similar distraction; thus I was somewhat blown away by a recent viewing of the Bruce Springsteen biographical movie, Deliver Me From Nowhere. […]
I guess I have achieved the age where people think I’m old enough that I must actually know some stuff because I keep getting asked for advice. It’s nice to think that people believe I have something useful to say about careers, life, and where to get the best shoes. It’s also kind of weird […]
You go and worry ’bout the things you can’t control I’m a see the doughnut, you can see the hole –Lyric from Looking’ Up by the Barenaked Ladies I have previously written about how, as a venture investor, it can be hard to stay on the right side of the line that separates skeptical from […]
There’s a famous silly example about how commas “save lives” that goes like this: As a total word nerd, I am a big fan of punctuation and am also a bit of a comma addict. I favor dramatic punctuation, long pauses, even (gasp!) ellipses in my writing. That means that I occasionally don’t follow the […]
Last week I was so lucky to be the date of my long-time friend Amy Raimundo at the first winning game of the Golden State Valkyries. This is their first season as a Women’s NBA (WNBA team) and I was completely blown away by what I encountered when I went into the stadium. Let me […]
I recently had the pleasure of moderating a panel of 5 friends who also are venture capitalists in the healthcare field. Since I often get asked to give advice to others in my field and since the audience had quite a few people who were new to or interested in the field of healthcare venture […]
You know how, when companies send out press releases explaining why key executives are no longer in their jobs, the press releases always say the person “left to pursue other interests” instead of saying they were fired or laid off? Well, given what’s going on in the world of private equity/venture capital and AI, I […]
Since I have been raising and deploying a venture fund focused on addressing health of women lately, I have had numerous occasions to be in rooms where the discussion ended up at “it’s really hard to raise venture capital for women’s health companies.” The whole discussion of venture funding for women’s health (and by women’s […]
Last week I was taking a break from the social whirl of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM) to sit by myself for a few minutes in the Union Square park area bordered by Stockton and Powell Streets. It was day three of the conference for me, having started Sunday morning. I was suffering from […]
If you follow me, you know I like to do a Holiday song parody each year and I’ve done quite a few of them. I know I’m old because I couldn’t remember if I had already tackled the 12 Days Of Christmas (I have) when I started out to write today. I’ve actually covered a […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.