What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
If you are age 75 or less, you have undoubtedly heard or read the children’s book Goodnight, Moon. It is a staple, at least in American children’s literature. The book was published in 1947, and written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It is estimated that the book has sold somewhere in the […]
I have heard a few people refer to the COVID pandemic as a “Black Swan Event.” This concept – if you don’t know it – has been around since the 2nd Century but came into common parlance more broadly when Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote his popular books called Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan […]
In my less cynical moments, I like to think that the organizing principle for much of healthcare today is this: how can we do the most for the most people for the least amount of money? The cynical version might be: what can I create for the most people so I can create the greatest […]
In 2012 I ran my first blog post on Health IT Bingo. It was a hit. In 2014, in honor of a proximate HIMSS meeting, I updated the Bingo story, but I didn’t update the Bingo board. Little had changed between 2012 and 2014, including the buzzwords. Digital health was really not even being called […]
I was on top of the world, living high It was right in my pocket I was living the life Things were just the way they should be When from out of the sky like a bomb comes some little punk in a rocket Now all of a sudden, some strange things are happening to […]
In the venture capital class I teach at Haas, the one topic that never fails to confuse is valuation, or how a private company is valued in an investment transaction. I’m not sure if it’s because math is hard, because valuation is based largely on not exactly math, or because it’s hard to keep track […]
Somebody out there in history who was obviously pretty grumpy took the time to categorize the official list of seven deadly sins, at least in the Biblical sense, which are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. No one has yet categorized the official list of seven deadly “oopsies” associated with Digital Therapeutics (DTx), […]
All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes, and this blog post is meant to announce that David and I have recorded our last Tech Tonics podcast, at least for now. After 6 years, 142 shows and over 1.5 million listens, we took a deep breath and decided it was time […]
I got an email this week from a smart and well-meaning entrepreneur. Despite the entrepreneur’s fine personal qualities, the email’s first paragraph had a total of 6 lines and in those 6 lines, it featured the word data 13 times. In other words, this email was beating the previously set world email record of using […]
Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients. Griffin grew up in Virginia, the […]
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.