What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […]
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 […]
I’m not trying to make a political statement, but last week Jeb Bush actually told the world that Obamacare could be “fixed” by the AppleWatch. His specific quote was: “On this device in five years will be applications that will allow me to manage my health care in ways that five years ago were not […]
It was my second year attending the wild and crazy Computer Electronics Show and, particularly the Digital Health Summit. If you’re looking for outrageous innovation that makes you hit your head with the heel of your hand and say “WTF?” CES is the place for you. As if Vegas isn’t surreal enough without 150,000 nerd […]
It’s the end of the year and I feel obliged to surrender to the compulsion to make lists of notable, best, worst, most memorable things like everyone else with a byline. After thinking about what I felt to be the most important and life altering healthcare news of 2014, I immediately cast those ideas aside […]
A shorter version of this post appeared in PE Hub on May 20, 2014 While I was wasting time looking at random Facebook posts the other day, I came across what might possibly be the most entertaining tool of all time, a website called Spurious Correlations. On this website you can pick from a myriad […]
Back in 1990’s, Hilary Clinton was often in the news (filed under “ridicule”) for her hair accessory of choice, a headband. More often associated with Scooby Doo’s Daphne or Bjorn Borg or even Madonna in her Desperately Seeking Susan phase, the headband has long been considered a somewhat gauche style choice. Until recently, that is. […]
I am clearly on a digital health kick, blog-wise, as I look back on my last few posts. Having spent time at both CES and the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, where digital health was a hot topic, it seems that the subsector is definitely having its day in the sun. I was particularly honored to […]
On January 7th I am heading to the International Computer Electronics Show (CES), one of the largest conferences in the world focused on all of the technologies we are not supposed to use while driving or in a dark movie theater or if we want to have a social life that expands beyond our cat. […]
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.