What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Hello to my friends and followers, I’m excited to announce that as of December 23, I became Senior Managing Director at GE Ventures, focused on healthcare. I am very excited to be back on the front lines of venture capital investing in the areas I love: health IT, health services, medical devices (non-invasive in this […]
Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time passing? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time ago? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone? Consumers have ignored them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? -Peter, Paul and Mary, as edited by me […]
The success of Silicon Valley is often attributed to the ability of the entrepreneurial community to embrace setbacks, rather than punishing those who experience them. Celebrating these setbacks has become an art form of it own; as a recent NYT op-ed suggested, “telling the story of what went wrong is a way to wring insight […]
These days it seems that nearly every major healthcare entity, whether public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, considers venture investing a core activity to advance their innovation agenda. Some are in it to learn, some to profit, others are in it because everyone else is doing it and thus FOMO is activated writ large. Corporate […]
I’ve been teaching the class on Healthcare Venture Capital at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for nearly 10 years. I co-teach this class with Dr. Jeff Rideout, a close friend and colleague, and we have a lot of fun doing it. It’s a bit of a busman’s holiday for me – playing at venture […]
Last week was quite a week. We lost David Bowie and gained another year at JP Morgan. Bowie’s passing was a big topic of discussion at the conference. GenXers and Millenials alike don’t like it when their superstar rock idols die of natural causes, and it made many feel their own mortality. We get so […]
The following post also appeared today in the new Oliver Wyman Health blog produced by Oliver Wyman’s Health & Life Science Practice. In 1998 I was forming my first venture fund with a focus on healthcare IT and healthcare services. It was an interesting time to be undertaking such a mission. The Internet boom […]
Next Friday I get to give the keynote/commencement speech for a group of European entrepreneurs who have come to America for Startup School. They are attending a program called Mind the Bridge, under the leadership of an old friend and colleague of mine, Charles Versaggi. Charles and I both worked for Regis McKenna Inc. once […]
A recent SF Chronicle article talked about a new trend: medical students from around the Bay Area and the country increasingly dropping out of residency programs and instead going into careers in high-tech start-ups. Bijan Salehizadeh (say that five times fast!) was well ahead of that trend. In 1999, his final year of medical school […]
I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along Somewhere I belong. – from Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park Linkin Park, in case you don’t know them, is one of the most popular and successful rock/rap/metal bands of all time. They have won all kinds of Billboard and Grammy and American Music awards among others. […]
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.