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, [...]
Posts Tagged "Psilos Group"
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The Founding Dreams of Teens
August 13, 2011 – 6:47 am
By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) VentureBeat recently asked: “Do teens make good founders?” As the parent of a teenager, my immediate thought was, “Yeah, sure, right after they clean up their rooms and set the table, they can be totally awesome founders, as long as they can tear themselves away from [...]
