What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Note: This article was authored by a trio consisting of me and my colleagues Nancy Nan and Rich McDerby in the Manatt Emerging Companies/Venture Capital Group; it originally ran on Manatt.com’s COVID resource website, found HERE. Thought I might pass it along here to my startup friends. As has become clear to all of us, […]
Two weeks ago my blog post was directed to investors (and by implication, to entrepreneurs) and encouraged them to ask three essential questions before making an investment in a healthcare company, particularly a digital health company. Note that I don’t think my post was entirely applicable to biotech investments since most of them are intended […]
When Megan Callahan was growing up, she was supposed to end up in healthcare – she didn’t even know there were alternatives. And she has spent her career and life in and around the field in more ways than she ever expected, as both an executive and a breast cancer patient. What she didn’t …
Yesterday on Twitter I not only saw, but got challenged to respond to Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups, which ran in 2012 in his column in Entrepreneur and got re-circulated yesterday. I have to say I agree with pretty much all of his rules as it applies to all startups, regardless of industry, with […]
As I have mentioned before, I teach a class on healthcare venture capital at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. For the final, students are asked to pick a private company which they think would be a great investment and write, for all intents and purposes, an investment memo to justify their recommendation and highlight […]
I do a lot of public speaking. I’m sure there are any number of people out there who think they have heard enough from me, but I seem to keep getting invited to speak at events and conferences, so I am not going quietly into the night. As Jimmy Buffett always sings in his live […]
A new research study, outlined in a Business Insider article, is out that draws a straight-line correlation (implying/suggesting causation) between cat ownership and entrepreneurship. The science goes like this: if you have cats, you come into contact with their poop, which has a particular parasite in it (Toxoplasma Gondii) that can get into and affect […]
Back in June, Sara Holoubek, the rather awesome CEO of Luminary Labs, put words to the frustration so many women feel about the enduring problem of conferences that forget there are two genders. So often in healthcare, where there are panels there are men and where there are keynotes there are…men. This occurs despite the […]
Christopher Robin: I wonder which way? Winnie the Pooh: I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I’ve been. Christopher Robin: Do you? Winnie the Pooh: That’s the way I do it. I posted the above exchange on LinkedIn this week and it was by far the most read thing I […]
We’re soldiers now in the culture war We’re soldiers now, but we don’t know what it’s for. -Arcade Fire I am fortunate I get to moderate a lot of interesting panel discussions. They are usually about healthcare or investing and occasionally about gender issues. But recently I got to participate in a different discussion 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.