What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Perhaps because I have a sales/marketing/product background, or perhaps because sales/marketing/product development are such a focus of conversation when you hang around with entrepreneurs, I am often asked what business book I would most recommend on these topics. I am sure that most would expect me to recommend one of the “classics,” such as Clayton […]
All eyes are on the hullaballoo created by the challenges at Healthcare.gov and several of the states’ public insurance exchanges. Yet all the while, like in a magic show, attention has been diverted from the real action going on elsewhere. Quietly and in a relatively drama-free way, the private health insurance exchanges are busily taking […]
Taking weird celebrity stalking behavior to a whole new level, my favorite new entrepreneurial idea I’ve seen lately is called Fantex. Fantasy football and Oscar voting pools not enough for you? How about owning a stock in your favorite sports hero or movie star? That’s what Fantex promises to do: create a stock market out […]
Despite its seeming silliness, people love Staples’ Easy Button. Those goofy buttons show up on desktops from coast-to-coast, an indication of those moments where we strike our head and say, “Duh, that was easy!” No surprise, there is no metaphorically complementary tchotchki for healthcare. We in the healthcare field are notorious for making things complicated […]
As an investor in private companies, aka venture capitalist or equivalent, I have one of those jobs that seems highly mysterious to many people. It is not the kind of job that you can easily explain to your grandparents or in one line to a stranger at a cocktail party (if said party occurs more […]
Monday, September 16 marks the beginning of the 8th annual Healthcare IT Week. Healthcare IT Week was started and continues on as a collaborative forum for public and private healthcare constituents to discuss the value of health information technology (health IT) for the U.S. healthcare system. It is amazing to see how far health IT […]
I had breakfast with an old friend this morning, who I shall not name given what is to follow in this post. He and I used to work together lo these many years ago and he is at what looks to be a very promising tech company now. During the conversation he was lamenting how […]
A version of this post ran on VentureBeat on July 29, 2013 I have recently spent a lot of volunteer time with early/seed stage entrepreneurs, or at least people with big visions and new products wishing to be entrepreneurs. And what I have observed through these efforts is this: a key differentiator between inventors and […]
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.