What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Hello All, I decided not to lug my laptop on vacation, as it is hard to type with a cocktail in one hand and a guidebook in the other. Thus, I am leaving you with a terrific segment I recently saw on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. John Oliver, you may recall, was a […]
Last week HBO aired the first episode of a new TV series called Silicon Valley. I have seen a fair amount of formal and casual review on the show including a heated debate of whether it’s funny or not and whether it is more of a satire or closer to a reality show. A few […]
As we approach the end of March, which is officially National Nutrition Month, I thought I would pass along a note from those who clearly didn’t get the memo: Dunkin Donuts has announced in March that they are getting ready to fill the void that has stunted efforts at world peace by launching marshmallow Peeps-encrusted […]
I’ve been traveling a lot the last few weeks and so have had ample opportunity to read questionable magazines that I pick up in lieu of reading things that will make me smarter. People Magazine is definitely a brain cell killer, although one of my faves. Rolling Stone has the occasional really smart article, but […]
I am clearly on a digital health kick, blog-wise, as I look back on my last few posts. Having spent time at both CES and the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, where digital health was a hot topic, it seems that the subsector is definitely having its day in the sun. I was particularly honored to […]
Well, it’s that time of year again, nearly the holidays. Whether you are more of a Hanukkah person or prefer Kwanzaa, all the good songs come out of the Christmas tradition, and so that’s where I have to go for material. Over the past few years I have written such holiday classics as: The 12 […]
I figured Thanksgiving was the perfect time for this clip from 1973’s movie Sleeper. For those of you who missed it because you were born after the invention of the iPhone, Sleeper is aa Woody Allen movie where the main character is the owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store; he is cryogenically frozen and […]
As an investor in private companies, aka venture capitalist or equivalent, I have one of those jobs that seems highly mysterious to many people. It is not the kind of job that you can easily explain to your grandparents or in one line to a stranger at a cocktail party (if said party occurs more […]
I had breakfast with an old friend this morning, who I shall not name given what is to follow in this post. He and I used to work together lo these many years ago and he is at what looks to be a very promising tech company now. During the conversation he was lamenting how […]
I was surfing around Facebook this morning and looking at everyone’s postings about their impending vacations. Seems as if everyone in the U.S. is leaving this week for some exotic locale, stretching out their July 4th weekend into a week-long celebration of summer. I was enviously watching the string of boasts (my term for Facebook […]
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.