What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Note that this post originally ran in Forbes and is co-authored by me and Dr. David Shaywitz, my co-conspirator on the Tech Tonics podcast. By now, we have it on good authority that healthcare is complicated. Apparently, many healthcurious tech investors have come to similar conclusions. It seems that after several years of breathless hype, […]
A recent SF Chronicle article talked about a new trend: medical students from around the Bay Area and the country increasingly dropping out of residency programs and instead going into careers in high-tech start-ups. Bijan Salehizadeh (say that five times fast!) was well ahead of that trend. In 1999, his final year of medical school […]
“In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.”– Charles Bukowski I was in NY two weeks ago and ended up at a NYC Health Business Leaders event put on by Bunny Ellerin that I hadn’t planned to attend. I was invited by my comrade-in-arms, Milena Adamian and was so glad I went. I […]
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.