What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
So here we all are, stuck in our homes (or we should be – shame on you if you’re out gallivanting) because of what we apparently caught from a bat. Most of us are sort of irrationally terrified of bats, and here it turns out that might be a well-founded concern, though not for the […]
Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS PBC), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child. Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she realized that she loved biology but hated math – she would rather live in the wilderness on a lake and […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […]
Now that the COVID-19 vaccine has hit the mainstream, or at least an infinitesimal portion of the mainstream so far, it seems to me that the time has come for the related business opportunities to be brought to light. Just imagine, the world’s largest total addressable market (TAM for those “in the know”) is about […]
A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading towards a career in academic medicine when he boldly decided to pivot to industry, where he’s enjoyed a remarkable and storied career in […]
I was recently talking, via the mixed blessing of Zoom, with the very awesome members of a women’s group to which I belong. We meet as a full group once a year and normally do so in person, at a spa, where food is brought to us by actual waiters. Remember waiters? Man, I miss […]
Dr. Sally Shaywitz – Yes, she is David’s mom – has brought an entrepreneur’s mindset to her life’s work in dyslexia, recognizing the condition as a prevalent and underappreciated need, then working tirelessly to advance the science and enact the policy required to fully unlock the potential within so many brilliant individuals. Sally has helped […]
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 […]
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.