What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Some people are using the pandemic to explore all the ice cream flavors. Some are using it as a way to avoid street clothing (honestly, I haven’t put real shoes on in 7 months). And some of us are reaching down deep and finding a level of thoughtfulness and productivity that I don’t quite know […]
By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen I’ve lived long enough to have learned The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned But that won’t happen to us Cause it’s always been a matter of trust -A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel If you’re in health care and you […]
Sadly I missed the Computer Electronics Show (CES) this year due to a pre-existing condition. These conditions cannot stop you from getting insurance anymore, but they can stop you from getting on a plane when your doctor threatens you with the risk of bleeding out on a plane to Vegas. I hate missing CES because […]
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s mother was named Polly. Polly was diagnosed in 1971 with leukemia treated with the current state of medieval medicine and told she would not live long. But armed with a well-equipped librarian, some cooperative doctors and Adelle Davis’ book Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit, she found her way to 7 more happy, […]
Back in 2012 I wrote a blog post called SXSW: Woodstock for Geeks, which became the opening chapter of Tech Tonics, the book I wrote with David Shaywitz. In this piece, I pointed out the marked differences between SXSW vs. HIMSS, both of which I had recently experienced. I said that HIMSS was best described […]
Maybe it’s something in the water (or on Newsweek magazine covers), but I have been getting asked a lot lately for advice from young women about how to succeed in business and overcome the significant anti-female bias that still exists in many quarters, but especially in Silicon Valley and finance. The question often sounds like […]
If you follow my blog, you know that last week I went to the International Computer Electronics Show, aka CES, in Las Vegas to participate in the health care goings-on that were happening there (Digital Health Summit, Silvers Summit). Ironic, isn’t it, to think that people would gather in Las Vegas for anything health-related, but […]
I was surfing around Facebook this morning and looking at everyone’s postings about their impending vacations. Seems as if everyone in the U.S. is leaving this week for some exotic locale, stretching out their July 4th weekend into a week-long celebration of summer. I was enviously watching the string of boasts (my term for Facebook […]
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.