What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
In the March 2013 issue of Consumer Reports, sandwiched between an article called “Best TVs” (just in time for Super Bowl) and one called “Microwave Mystery: When do wayward ovens warrant a recall?” is an article entitled “Save Your Life.” This article, ensconced as it is in the most widely respected national consumer advice magazine, […]
This week I had the occasion to be at UCLA for a very interesting meeting (more on that in a future post). As I arrived at LAX to return my rental car, I drove past a huge billboard at the corner of 96th Avenue and Airport Blvd (just across from the Renaissance Hotel) that made […]
If you’re a man and you have fingers, I have some good news and some bad news. Recent studies have shown that if your index finger is shorter than your ring finger, you are at a significantly higher risk for prostate cancer. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you are more likely […]
Back in September 2010 I wrote about the controversies associated with home-based genetic testing companies and their products. This topic remains much in the news, as the FDA has declared their intent to regulate these products and several companies have withdrawn from the direct-to-consumer market. Reuters reported this week that in a survey of over […]
I thought I had seen it all until I saw the “sexy” Sesame Street costumes that are new this year for Halloween. You too can be amazingly slut-tastic as Elmo, Big Bird or Cookie Monster while you troll the street for candy. More of a Pixar fan? How about sexy Nemo from Finding Nemo fame? […]
Everyone has their guilty pleasure. Mine is People Magazine. I love it. I look forward to it every week. At our house we fight over who gets to read it first. I know that I should spend my limited reading time perusing something more weighty that advances my career-related knowledge, like the New England Journal […]
This post first appeared yesterday as a guest article in Xconomy. Almost everyone knows someone who has had cancer. It is the disease that seems to strike the most fear in people’s hearts, in part because it seems to affect people so randomly. We all know that if we eat right, exercise and keep our […]
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.