What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
You know how you accumulate stuff in your office until it feels like a time capsule? Well, that was my office until last week. I decided it was high time to dig a trench between the door and the desk and, in the process, to move whatever was in there taking up space to that […]
My lovely friend Susannah Fox thinks and writes extensively about peer-to-peer healthcare, as well as the plight of people with rare health conditions. In a recent article, she developed a framework for thinking about what conditions do and don’t get addressed to patients’ satisfaction (and her friends helped her render it as below): Susannah asked […]
This article ran last week in STAT News – delighted to pass it along to my fellow space buffs and thank you to STAT for telling the story of TRISH. By Asha Collins, Lisa Suennen and Armen R. Kherlopian SpaceX Inspiration4, funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, recently orbited the Earth for three days with an […]
For ages I’ve been saying that the term “digital health” should be retired – that it is a bit of a lazy term that evolved around 10-12 years ago at a time when technology and healthcare rarely appeared in the same zip code, much less in the same enterprise. At that time, it was surprising […]
In my less cynical moments, I like to think that the organizing principle for much of healthcare today is this: how can we do the most for the most people for the least amount of money? The cynical version might be: what can I create for the most people so I can create the greatest […]
In the venture capital class I teach at Haas, the one topic that never fails to confuse is valuation, or how a private company is valued in an investment transaction. I’m not sure if it’s because math is hard, because valuation is based largely on not exactly math, or because it’s hard to keep track […]
Somebody out there in history who was obviously pretty grumpy took the time to categorize the official list of seven deadly sins, at least in the Biblical sense, which are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. No one has yet categorized the official list of seven deadly “oopsies” associated with Digital Therapeutics (DTx), […]
Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve. He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join the tech scene, and helped start and lead several successful tech companies, including Zazzle and CardSpring (sold to Twitter). Along the way […]
Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The moment sparked a sudden realization that the best life science innovation would be focused around the consumer and a career finding ways to […]
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 […]
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.