What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Hello everyone, I didn’t get a chance to write this week as I was traveling. It was driving me slightly crazy that I had nothing to offer readers this morning until I came across this remarkably awesome song, Evo Devo, which explains evolutionary biology so well that I am ashamed to even try my hand […]
I missed the 2018 Computer Electronics Show this year (it overlapped with JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference) so I had to rely on the kindness of friends and media to send me alerts on the weirdest digital stuff on earth. CES is chockablock with things no one needs and no one should have even thought to […]
It’s that time of year again. I have, for many years, written a holiday parody song or similar and this year will be no exception. Past years have been marked by the following songs and poems: Walking in a Venture Fundingland It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like A Business An Entrepreneur’s 12 Days of […]
For those of you who have followed me for a while, you know I like to do a holiday song parody at the end of each year. I love both comedy and music, and if I didn’t have a singlng voice that could raise the dead I could have been the next Weird Al Yankovic. […]
For many, myself included, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. And with the Thanksgiving holiday coming soon, it’s obviously time to think about Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Festivus so we can be sure to maximize our stress at every given moment. It’s been a while since I went all out silly, so I decided […]
My Prince homage…sorry couldn’t help myself. Prince was the lead vocalist on the soundtrack of my college years. I worshipped the guy, loved the music, appreciated the creativity and how he always appeared to revel in his own unique quirkiness. He had his own color, for crying out loud. You gotta be pretty badass to […]
I have a new favorite TV show: Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is a irreverent, sometimes raunchy Scottish comedian who used to host the Late Late Show alongside his skeleton puppet sidekick Geoff. Join or Die airs Thursdays at 11 pm on the History Channel, which is your first clue that this isn’t […]
A recent Altarum Institute report says that healthcare spending is again on the rise. Among the contributors: drug prices, which are up 6.4% from December 2013 to December 2014. In contrast, hospital prices grew just 0.9% in 2014, according to the report. The arbiter of all things health related, comedian John Oliver, recently did a […]
It’s the end of the year and I feel obliged to surrender to the compulsion to make lists of notable, best, worst, most memorable things like everyone else with a byline. After thinking about what I felt to be the most important and life altering healthcare news of 2014, I immediately cast those ideas aside […]
Ok, not everyone likes Stephen Colbert and not everyone likes President Obama, but this segment that they did together about Obamacare was absolutely hilarious. Playing off Colbert’s standing segment called “The Word”, Obama takes on Obamacare and it is pretty funny, particularly when he suggests that the alternative to Obamacare from the other side of […]
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.