What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Hugs. Remember hugs?! I miss hugs. I even miss the awkward “do I hug you or shake your hand at a meeting or some weird shoulder touching while holding hands combo” thing. The miserable coronavirus has taken away that most basic of human experiences – hugging. What if there could be a tool that both […]
Now that the COVID-19 vaccine has hit the mainstream, or at least an infinitesimal portion of the mainstream so far, it seems to me that the time has come for the related business opportunities to be brought to light. Just imagine, the world’s largest total addressable market (TAM for those “in the know”) is about […]
Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media, has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any. He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but at the age of 21, on his way to study in a USC graduate music program with Hans Zimmer, he was […]
Kevin Lyman was once the world’s highest ranked Warlock in Worlds of Warcraft and a professional Halo2 player. But that wasn’t his original plan. In fact, growing up in New Jersey, Kevin always wanted to be a scientist, even before he was sure of what that meant. While a student at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute, Kevin […]
Geeta Nayyar, MD initially wanted to be a teacher, but then decided “science is the answer to everything” and became a doctor. Today she is the recently-appointed Executive Medical Director at Salesforce and gets to do both, which is her dream come to life. Geeta’s parents were both MDs and her two brothers are both […]
Growing up in a small town in Iowa, Jill Hagenkord never imagined herself as a doctor, or scientist, or entrepreneur – yet she became all three, blazing her own path and charting for herself a captivating personal and professional journey. Jill’s childhood was especially difficult; her parents divorced when she was ten, leaving Jill and […]
Arnaub Chatterjee comes from a long line of physicians, and in his youth, assumed he’d follow the family tradition. At college at the University of Michigan, he pursued a well-traveled path towards medicine, graduating with a degree in cell and molecular biology. But then his heart wandered, and ultimately he found himself having a difficult […]
Like half of America and, no doubt, all of the inhabitants of Wakanda (given their affiliation with Disney), I watched the musical Hamilton on July 3rd on my newly acquired Disney+ streaming account. It wasn’t my first Hamilton rodeo. I have been very fortunate to have seen the musical a few times in both New […]
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. That Dickensian construct is a perfect one for thinking about digital health before and after the advent of the coronavirus. As late as March, the runaway train that has been investment in digital health had been running along at Bullet Train speed. 2019 […]
A childhood fraught with illness, loss and uncertainty drove Torrie Fields to an adulthood focused on making these experiences better for others. Torrie sincerely believes that we are all here for a reason and that her reason to is help people have more dignified, less painful experiences at the end of their lives. Having learned […]
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.