What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
I am still recovering from last week’s 29th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (“JPM”). For those of you who did not spend last week at JPM, you can creatively visualize the experience: just imagine being crammed into a 4 square block area of San Francisco with every single person who ever uttered the words “health […]
I am still recovering from last week’s 29th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (“JPM”). For those of you who did not spend last week at JPM, you can creatively visualize the experience: just imagine being crammed into a 4 square block area of San Francisco with every single person who ever uttered the words “health […]
Recently PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) put out a report that included their top health industry issues of 2011. The list includes these six items: #1: Booming business in health information technology #2: Gearing up to redefine health insurance: From MLRs to insurance exchanges #3: ACOs: Is this the next big thing or not? #4: Nowhere else …
It’s nearly New Year’s Eve and if you are typical you will hear someone wish you a new year that brings good health. The promise of good health generally supposes that one will not get sick; in other words, that one will be able to prevent the onset of illness that might cramp ones style […]
The field of behavioral genetics is focused on determining whether or not human behavior derives from one’s genes versus one’s environment. Behavioral geneticists seek to determine if the things that we do are the result of how we are wired or, alternatively how we choose or are conditioned to live our lives. A myriad of […]
Today in a Virginia federal courthouse, Judge Henry Hudson shot a hole through the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. Since the ACA has not gone into full effect, it was unable to afford a cardiologist to close the hole and thus it is currently causing those who support it […]
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.”–Groucho Marx The following is a reprint of a November 20, 2010 press release from Astia, which is an organization dedicated to fostering women’s entrepreneurship in many forms. They recently gave awards to several venture capital firms for their […]
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.”–Groucho Marx The following is a reprint of a November 20, 2010 press release from Astia, which is an organization dedicated to fostering women’s entrepreneurship in many forms. They recently gave awards to several venture capital firms for their […]
There is still no cure for the common birthday.–John Glenn My birthday is coming up this month and this whole getting older thing is vastly over-rated. I know I’m not the first person to think that gravity has gotten stronger as I have gotten older–as Mark Twain famously once said, “life would be infinitely happier […]
You may think of it as the first week of Christmas, but there are some out there that think of this first week of December as National Handwashing Awareness Week. Pay attention Hallmark–another greeting card opportunity is upon you. I’m sure the one you sent me, blog reader, is in the mail. Christmas has Santa […]
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.