What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media, has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any. He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but at the age of 21, on his way to study in a USC graduate music program with Hans Zimmer, he was […]
Since Crick and Watson figured out the structure of DNA in 1953, there has been a constant effort to make genomics meaningful to medicine in a broad scale way. Here we are, a mere 65 years later, and it seems that genomic sequencing has finally hit the big time. And by big time I don’t […]
“Every great story seems to begin with a snake” – Nicholas Cage I am approached every day by digital health companies looking to introduce me to their new products. 98% of them seem to be virtually the same: the new, new population health program, the next greatest re-admission avoidance product, yet another approach 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 […]
Over the last 20 years I have collected tons of business cartoons to use in presentations and other work projects. One cartoon, in particular, is getting so worn from overuse that I should probably have it laminated. It is this one: I have dragged out this beauty when companies have asked me about how to […]
It’s always hard for me to come back from vacation and get reconnected with work, especially when I have had a great time, as I did. I spent the early part of this week trying to get my motivation back, including the impetus to restart the blog after a 3 week hiatus. There I was, […]
I fly a lot and while I like to work on planes when I am not depositing sleep-induced drool on my seatmates, I also like to read trashy magazines. It’s my opportunity to engage in this guilty pleasure when no one is paying attention. My go-to threesome of magazines is pretty much always the same: […]
About a year ago I was in a meeting when someone casually threw out the acronym IOT. I was too unhip to know what it meant at the time (probably still) and I asked for clarification, which brought me exceptional scorn while I was told it stood for “Internet of Things.” Well I had heard […]
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”—Sherlock Holmes via Arthur Conan Doyle It’s been a while since I sat and read a book cover to cover in one day, but yesterday was that day. I was […]
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.