What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
“The team with the best players wins.”–Jack Welch, former Chairman & CEO, General Electric Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of accelerator and angel investor representatives in the course of teaching my healthcare venture capital class at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Together with my teaching partner, Dr. Jeff Rideout […]
Last week an article was published in the clinical journal Diabetologia that described a significant study performed in Europe. The study demonstrated that people who drink even one can of sugary soda per day raise their risk of Type II diabetes by 18%. The results echoed those of a previously performed U.S. study that suggested […]
I know I have been a bit of a sourpuss (foreshadowing alert) on the whole digital health marketplace. While I fully acknowledge that there are some great technologies and great apps and even great business cases for the use of digital health products, a large number of the digital health ideas currently being touted as […]
This is the longest stretch I’ve gone without writing since I started the blog two years ago. The reason for the lack of production is this: I’ve been on (and am still on) a 10-day trip with my family to look at colleges. My daughter is at the age where next year she will finish […]
Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited back to the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) to participate as a judge of a digital healthcare start-up competition. SXSW, which takes place in Austin, TX, is historically an indie music gathering that has evolved into a massive mainstream music conference as well as […]
OK, I have officially seen it all. I happened to catch Bill Maher’s blog the other day, which is not something I normally read. It was the headline that got me: Posthumous Posts. The article, which you can read HERE, is about how there are no less than three–count them, three–companies which have been established […]
On Tuesday I flew on a business trip from Germany to Boston. As with all these long flights you can never have enough to do to keep yourself occupied when sleep eludes, so on the way into the plane I grabbed the International Herald Tribune (which announced this week it will be henceforth be known […]
Last week I covered the Grammys, now I’m giving you my Oscar pick for healthcare-related film of the year. But first, a preface: One of the most pervasive healthcare business trends I have seen in the last year or two is the formation of companies seeking to help people “age in place,” aka live out […]
It’s awards season, as anyone who watched the Grammys or Golden Globes and is anticipating the Oscars knows. The Grammys appeared on TV last night and were a great mix of old and new performers giving it their all for a wanting audience. Much of the host talk was about the dress code requested by […]
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, […]
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.