What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Yes, I love the movies, which is why I throw in an occasional movie review in here now and then. Aside from comedy, my favorite thing to see is documentaries about extraordinary people and/or events. It’s similar to what I like to read: non-fiction stories that are stranger or more fantastical than what one might […]
I have just returned from a trip to Colorado for a meeting of my Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellowship group. When we meet, a large portion of our time is taken up discussing great works of literature that inform such questions as “What is A Great Society?” and “What Do You Want Your Legacy to […]
Last week was quite a week. We lost David Bowie and gained another year at JP Morgan. Bowie’s passing was a big topic of discussion at the conference. GenXers and Millenials alike don’t like it when their superstar rock idols die of natural causes, and it made many feel their own mortality. We get so […]
This week I used my Uber app (I’m so modern!) to get a car from my hotel to a board dinner in San Diego. The driver who showed up was a youngish guy, around age 30, who was particularly chatty and especially interested in business issues. He immediately started grilling me about what I did […]
“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 […]
This week I had occasion to make a presentation at a meeting of one of the investors in my fund, Jacobs Capital Group. Awesome folks, the people there, and they specifically asked me to present the “Anatomy of a Deal” in which I would describe one of my portfolio investments and its associated twists and […]
I wrote most of this post while on a plane flying to New Orleans to attend the funeral of a loving family friend and adopted relative, Tsip Levitov. She was 95 when she died last week and lived a long, wonderful life marked by incredible achievements, particularly for a woman who grew up in an […]
OK, I’ve had it. I have laid off the feminista manifestos for a while, focusing my writing mainly on healthcare issues that are my stock in trade. But, as the saying goes, I saw the straw that broke the camel’s back and it came in the form of Wisconsin Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman and […]
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 […]
Last week I published a post called “Hey, Where Is Everybody Going?” which was about the many venture capitalists who are leaving the practice of life sciences. It was, interestingly (to me anyway), my most popular post to date. I guess there are a lot of us healthcare VCs that are worried that the next […]
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.