What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Sometimes destiny actually finds us. Today, I am delighted to say that this has happened to me! As many of you know, I have been on the lookout for the right full-time leadership opportunity. While I have enjoyed the advisory work I have been doing and have had some wonderful projects and colleagues in these […]
Last night I went to see a show called Your Favorite Woman: The Joy of Sex Education. It’s a one woman show featuring the profoundly smart and funny Samantha Bee and it’s touring the U.S. If you are a) female, b) male or c) any or all of the above, you should run, not walk, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like half of America and, no doubt, all of the inhabitants of Wakanda (given their affiliation with Disney), I watched the musical Hamilton on July 3rd on my newly acquired Disney+ streaming account. It wasn’t my first Hamilton rodeo. I have been very fortunate to have seen the musical a few times in both New […]
This blog post appears during the 2019 HLTH Conference, held in Las Vegas, NV. As a venture capital investor, I love Las Vegas. It is the ultimate home of hoping your money makes more money, so it is like my natural habitat. This is the 2nd year of the HLTH Conference, and already it is […]
Yes, I love the movies, which is why I throw in an occasional movie review in here now and then. Aside from comedy, my favorite thing to see is documentaries about extraordinary people and/or events. It’s similar to what I like to read: non-fiction stories that are stranger or more fantastical than what one might […]
In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, and hasn’t looked back. As befits a future geneticist, Karen chose her own genes extremely wisely: her dad was a legendary wunderkind in Taiwan who had […]
Note: Thanks to Entrepreneur for first running my article on May 21, 2019 To Break up the Boys’ Club, Ladies, Why Not Start Your Own Venture Capital Firm? Women in VC roles can’t rely on public relations fixes, token nods or the chivalry of their male colleagues. They have to do it themselves. Elodie Dupuy […]
There is an old song by Helen Reddy called “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar.” It was written and sung in 1971 and the point of the song, one of the early pro-female rah-rah songs, is to encourage women to be confident, speak out, avoid being ignored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br26Kj5C4T4 Today it is nearly 50 years later, […]
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.