What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
These days it seems that nearly every major healthcare entity, whether public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, considers venture investing a core activity to advance their innovation agenda. Some are in it to learn, some to profit, others are in it because everyone else is doing it and thus FOMO is activated writ large. Corporate […]
My wonderful friend Jane Sarasohn Kahn sent me an article the other day that really set me off. I know that was the point, actually—to get me thinking about how unbelievably weird and biased the conclusions of the article were. The article was entitled, Women venture capitalists underperform men, say Harvard academics. The article reported […]
There was a story in the Washington Post a few weeks back that started with this paragraph: “People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing […]
Last week I was being interviewed for a newspaper article and one of the questions I was asked was, “Are there any deals you wish you did but didn’t…ones that got away?” I replied by saying that every single person in my business, if they are telling the truth and have worked long enough, has […]
This is the longest stretch I’ve gone without writing since I started the blog two years ago. The reason for the lack of production is this: I’ve been on (and am still on) a 10-day trip with my family to look at colleges. My daughter is at the age where next year she will finish […]
It’s awards season, as anyone who watched the Grammys or Golden Globes and is anticipating the Oscars knows. The Grammys appeared on TV last night and were a great mix of old and new performers giving it their all for a wanting audience. Much of the host talk was about the dress code requested by […]
On March 23,, 2012 the U.S. Senate, acting in bipartisan fashion, probably because they mistakenly thought it was April Fools Day, resoundingly passed the JOBS Act. The JOBS Act, which stands for Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups, is primarily intended to create new jobs by helping small and very small companies have more ready access to […]
Turns out there are all different kinds of techno geeks out there. At HIMSS a few weeks ago I was feeling semi-hip among the healthcare uber-nerd crowd that worries about how to make big hospital and healthcare enterprises function with big data. It’s a festival of old-school techno weenies recognizable in the wild by their […]
Okay, I know it’s kind of cheating, but I am re-posting my column from New Year’s 2011 where I turned Auld Lang Syne into an ode to venture capital. Why? you ask. Because I haven’t been able to come up with another decent New Year’s song to parody and I have been drinking far too […]
Okay, I know it’s kind of cheating, but I am re-posting my column from New Year’s 2011 where I turned Auld Lang Syne into an ode to venture capital. Why? you ask. Because I haven’t been able to come up with another decent New Year’s song to parody and I have been drinking far too […]
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.