What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
This blog post appears during the 2019 HLTH Conference, held in Las Vegas, NV. As a venture capital investor, I love Las Vegas. It is the ultimate home of hoping your money makes more money, so it is like my natural habitat. This is the 2nd year of the HLTH Conference, and already it is […]
There is an old song by Helen Reddy called “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar.” It was written and sung in 1971 and the point of the song, one of the early pro-female rah-rah songs, is to encourage women to be confident, speak out, avoid being ignored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br26Kj5C4T4 Today it is nearly 50 years later, […]
History repeats the old conceits The glib replies the same defeats – from Beyond Belief by Elvis Costello Some of you may remember my blog post and other reportage on the now legendary LifeSci Advisors party that occurred at the 2016 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (a party not sponsored by JP Morgan). That event, where […]
There were so many interesting themes from the JP Morgan conference this year that I wasn’t sure what story I wanted to tell first: the focus on oncology, the rush of pharma to digital, the newfound interest in social determinants of health, AI as the all-being, master of time, space and dimension. But considering the […]
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” –Alice Paul It has been, not just for me but for many, national women’s month. Maybe it’s not officially proclaimed as such, but it has just worked out that way. It started for me the second week of January at […]
“Hot Child in the City, Running Wild Looking Pretty”–Nick Gilder It’s been a while since I got up on my feminist high horse. I mean seriously, how many times can you write about how the number of women at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference approximates the number of women in the starting line-up of SF […]
I set off for five straight days at the annual JP Morgan healthcare conference last Monday, but on the way drove the carpool to my daughter’s high school that morning in a last ditch attempt to act like a responsible and caring parent. My poor daughter gets completely abandoned during JP Morgan week every year […]
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.