Best market sizing analysis on earth, via Ali G, for the ice cream glove market analysis. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) Have you seen Shark Tank? Seriously, who comes up with this stuff? Someone should do a study matching the city of origin of some of the crazier ideas with the [...]
Posts Tagged "Lisa Suennen"
Where Are the Women in Venture Capital That Blog?
April 16, 2013 – 7:00 am
As gatekeepers of venture capital, where are the women in venture capital who blog? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thought leadership in technology, entrepreneurship and business is established by blogging and tweeting. Unfortunately, the blog rolls of venture capitalists are filled with mostly, well, men ranging from the partners at Andreesseen Horowitz, [...]
Digital Health: The Cat’s Meow
April 15, 2013 – 8:00 am
Shippo is a system comprised of a smartphone-based app plus body-worn sensors plus, shall we say, a health appliance; together the system reads brain waves and heart beats and then uniquely applies those inputs to improve one’s ability to communicate emotions and intentions. Oh, I forgot to mention, the health appliance is a tail. Yes, [...]
“I’m On A Boat!” – The Rising Fleet Of Startup Incubators
October 1, 2012 – 12:00 pm
What’s next after a boat? With a goat? On a plane? On a train? In a tree? Seems like a lot of incubators if you ask me. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) I was hanging out with Tom Rodgers of Cambia Health the other day and we were discussing the seemingly [...]
Rock Health Kicks Off “XX In Health” Week
July 30, 2012 – 10:13 pm
The “XX in Health Initiative” aims to change the ratio among women leading healthcare. By Dana Rosenberg (Director of Business Development, Rock Health) We hear startling statistics on the number of women in leadership positions all too often… Women represent 19% of law firm partners. Women hold 17% of the seats in congress. Women comprise [...]
Your CEO May Be A Man, But Your Healthcare Customer Is A Woman
July 24, 2012 – 7:00 am
Women have the kind of customer loyalty that transmits real value in healthcare. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) I recently saw a statistic from my friends at Rock Health that said that women comprise only 4% of healthcare industry CEOs. For those of you who are slow at math, this means [...]
Does This Augmented Reality Make Me Look Fat?
June 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
The best application of this technology is that the researchers figured out how to add a peripheral device to the shades so that scents can combine with the optical illusion effects to fool the wearer into thinking that the broccoli they are eating is really a big juicy slice of coconut cream pie, or whatever [...]
Woodstock For Geeks: SXSW Interactive
March 12, 2012 – 12:21 pm
Opportunities for SXSW and HIMSS. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) At HIMSS a few weeks ago, I was feeling semi-hip among the healthcare uber-nerd crowd that worries about how to make big hospital and healthcare enterprises function with big data. Fast forward two weeks and I found myself, too uncool for [...]
Sleights Of Mind In Healthcare: Do You Believe In Magic?
December 7, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) As health and science have entered the popular discourse in a greater way these past several years, there has been an upsurge in scientific literature delivered in an accessible pop culture format-science for the Everyman, if you will. Especially popular among the books that have migrated [...]
Newsflash: Grass Is Green, Sky Is Blue, VCs Are White Men
November 23, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) On November 21, the National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones VentureSource released the results of the 2011 Venture Census, which reported statistics about ethnicity, gender and other characteristics of the venture capital industry garnered from a poll that included 600 VC industry participants. Not surprisingly, [...]
