What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Last night I went to what might have been the most fun show I have ever attended: the 27th anniversary showing of the movie The Princess Bride. The event was done as a “quote along” where the audience shouts out the lines along with the movie. While I should probably pretend that I am impressed […]
You’ve read our book – now experience our podcast! David Shaywitz and I are excited to announce the launch of Tech Tonics, the Podcast, building on the success of Tech Tonics, the book. Tech Tonics, the Podcast will be a twice monthly program focused on the people and passion at the intersection of technology and […]
Oh, there’s a lot of opportunities If you know when to take them, you know? There’s a lot of opportunities If there aren’t, you can make them Make or break them -Pet Shop Boys, Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money!) I am fortunate in that I get asked to speak at a lot of […]
Last Christmas, while I was supposed to be buying things for other people, I splurged on a silly novelty gift for myself: a box of “Corporate Flashcards,” marketed as “the perfect gift for the unemployed or over-employed.” If you follow me regularly, you know I have a fascination with words and wordplay, as well as […]
Very recently, CB Insights published something they called the Periodic Table of Healthcare. It was a very clever way to characterize the healthcare landscape, featuring investors, acquirers in pharma, biotech, medical devices, drug discovery, drug development. They specifically noted that the Table was not intended to characterize the digital health world, so I decided to […]
I am excited to announce that the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has just published a report, authored by me, about the state of healthcare Accelerators in the U.S. and around the world. For those of you who don’t know CHCF, it is a very large not-for-profit endowment that has a mission to improve the […]
A shorter version of this post appeared in PE Hub on May 20, 2014 While I was wasting time looking at random Facebook posts the other day, I came across what might possibly be the most entertaining tool of all time, a website called Spurious Correlations. On this website you can pick from a myriad […]
Note: A slightly shorter version of this post appeared March 21, 2014 on PE Hub. Oh lord, so this explains it. Women have heard a million excuses about why, as entrepreneurs, we get the short end of the stick when it comes to raising venture capital. In case you are unaware or are missing a […]
OK, I want you to take a quick test and answer the question with the first thing that comes to mind: What does a “start-up entrepreneur” look like? OK, do you have a picture in your mind? If you are like most people, I bet your first thought was someone who looks suspiciously like a […]
“In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.”– Charles Bukowski I was in NY two weeks ago and ended up at a NYC Health Business Leaders event put on by Bunny Ellerin that I hadn’t planned to attend. I was invited by my comrade-in-arms, Milena Adamian and was so glad I went. I […]
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.