What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
Rebecca Kaul had planned to be a doctor. But life and the HMO era got in the way. As a result she went down an entirely different and windy path through chemical engineering, public policy, consulting on information systems and reinsurance. And together these all led her right back to a different way of contributing […]
As I have mentioned before, I teach a class on healthcare venture capital at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. For the final, students are asked to pick a private company which they think would be a great investment and write, for all intents and purposes, an investment memo to justify their recommendation and highlight […]
A brilliant cardiologist and geneticist, Dr. Calum McRae rose to the top of academic medicine – then decided to reinvent it, from the inside. He just may be the person to do it. Born on the Isle of Skye off the coast of Scotland, Calum was the son of a physician, and couldn’t resist the […]
Earlier this week I was on a panel at a major healthcare conference in Washington, DC and, while it covered a variety of healthcare system maladies, the main topic was healthcare pricing transparency. There were a few moments during the panel that raised my eyebrows and compelled me to set the record straight, both on […]
Dr. James Dromey was supposed to be a farmer in County Cork, Ireland and has the milking experience to prove it. But apparently cows were not his destiny, even though he was a farm family’s only son. Instead, James left the farm for the teeming metropolis of Galway and never looked back. Today he is […]
Beau Woods used to be a hobbyist hacker and now he is a professional one. What used to be friendly pranks, like ejecting his buddies’ CD trays or shutting down their computers from afar, has turned into a crusade to make medical devices safe through a more altruistic form of hacking and a major effort […]
On April 2nd, which is not April Fools’ Day, Patagonia informed a finance company client that it will no longer sell co-branded fleece or puffer vests to their crowd, citing a refinement of its corporate values. An article in Buzzfeed ran their statement: I was understandably taken aback by this notice, as I have […]
Andy Coravos left a promising career at a top private equity firm to follow her passion and pursue intensive training as a software developer; she now works on the frontier of engineering and medicine as CEO and co-founder of Elektra Labs, focused on the use of digital measures to support clinical research, and the generation […]
This week the national news reported that former President Jimmy Carter is the American President who has lived longer than any other in this history of the nation. Carter, whose presidency ended in 1981, is now 94 years old and a modern medical miracle. He was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015 and it metastasized to […]
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.