What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
If you were awake during 2023, it was a tough year in pretty much every way. War was the top line news story, second only to tales of the total breakdown of our political system. Women’s rights were shattered, and rising bigotry and prejudice of all kinds were in evidence. We have had environmental meltdown, […]
Next Friday I get to give the keynote/commencement speech for a group of European entrepreneurs who have come to America for Startup School. They are attending a program called Mind the Bridge, under the leadership of an old friend and colleague of mine, Charles Versaggi. Charles and I both worked for Regis McKenna Inc. once […]
There was a story in the Washington Post a few weeks back that started with this paragraph: “People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing […]
A version of this post ran on VentureBeat on July 29, 2013 I have recently spent a lot of volunteer time with early/seed stage entrepreneurs, or at least people with big visions and new products wishing to be entrepreneurs. And what I have observed through these efforts is this: a key differentiator between inventors and […]
“You say you want a revolution,Well, you know,We all want to change the world”—The Beatles I had the pleasure of attending a “salon” type dinner hosted by Xconomy and its chief correspondent and San Francisco editor Wade Roush last week (and graciously sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank and Alexandria Real Estate Equities). The dinner included […]
Recently Steve Case wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post called Give Entrepreneurs Room and They Will Grow the Economy. For those not familiar with him, Case was the original founding CEO of AOL and he has been an active healthcare investor, among other things, for the past 7 years. My firm, Psilos Group, has […]
There was an article in the August 8th issue of Venture Beat entitled, “Do teens make good founders? 6 teenage teams make their debut to find out.” As the parent of a teenager, my immediate thought was, “yeah, sure, right after they clean up their rooms and set the table, they can be totally awesome […]
Sorry to those who saw this already; the post didn’t make it to most of my readers so I am reposting… Well thank goodness. I have recently learned that I can be replaced by a piece of software. Work has been pretty taxing lately, so this is quite a relief, as long as they …
Well thank goodness. I have recently learned that I can be replaced by a piece of software. Work has been pretty taxing lately, so this is quite a relief, as long as they keep paying me. Apparently there is a new data analysis product called Quid that is able to detect what sectors in a […]
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending an event put together by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a branch of the US Department Of Health and Human Services whose mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. AHRQ has established an Innovations …
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.