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Girl Crush: NYC Start-Up Founder Carla Holtze

Meet Vixely’s latest Girl Crush, Carla Holtze, New York-based CEO of Have to Have and a dear friend of the Vixely team. Brilliant,  bold, and determined, Carla can uniquely transition from strategic executor to a delightful friend to share a glass of wine with or fun night out! Learn more about Carla and her honest and inspirational story of how [...]

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Vixely Featured in “30 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2013″

Thank you to The Jane Dough for including Vixely’s co-founders—Jennifer Eident, Nora Bass and Lara Glaister—in their “30 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2013.” We are honored to be included in a group of so many smart and successful women, including former Girl Crushes Stacey Borden and Meghan Muntean (ChickRx), Julia Hartz (Eventbrite), Jessica Herrin (StellaDot), [...]

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7 Ways Women Can Prevent an Intimacy Disorder by Expert Robert Weiss

My clients want to have relationships, but they also want to be 100% certain that they won’t get hurt. For emotional self-protection they tend to seek situations that offer controllable intimacy, which is an oxymoron. Emotional intensity, over which you can feel some control, is not the same as genuine closeness. Being vulnerable enough to allow [...]

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Lazy Sundays: In Bed with TED

You know how much we at Vixely love to snuggle-up in bed with TED (talks) on Sundays after a long weekend. This past week, on December 1st, TEDxBayArea held the third annual Global Women Entrepreneurs event to celebrate women leaders around the world. While I was disappointed to miss my first TEDxBayArea/ SF talk since moving to New York, [...]

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Girl Crush: Joanna Riley Weidenmiller of The One-Page Company

Meet Vixely’s latest Girl Crush, Joanna Riley Weidenmiller, Co-Founder and CEO of The One-Page Company. A former member of the FBI, Joanna showed her entrepreneurial zeal from an early age. Having recently announced $1.5 million in seed funding, The One-Page Company makes branded communication tools for corporations and individuals to write effective proposals in a one-page format. Their 1-Page Job Proposal [...]

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Do You Have An Intimacy Disorder? Vixely Talks to Expert Robert Weiss (Part 2)

My clients want to have relationships, but they also want to be 100% certain that they won’t get hurt. For emotional self-protection they tend to seek situations that offer controllable intimacy, which is an oxymoron. Emotional intensity, over which you can feel some control, is not the same as genuine closeness. Being vulnerable enough to [...]

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Girl Crush: Julia Katherine Wetherell & Kathryn Zambetti of MyDROBE

Now, for real, you know the scene in Clueless where Cher scrolls through her virtual closet trying to pick out an outfit? Well, it appears Julia Katherine Wetherell and Kathryn Zambetti created just that with MyDROBE, an online platform where users can access their wardrobes and “take the war out of wardrobe.” The fashionista founders came up [...]

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Vixely Featured on HuffPo in “Tech’s Gender Gap” by Rebekah Iliff

Vixely is thrilled to be featured on Huffington Post Tech’s recent article “Tech’s Gender Gap: Real or Silicon (Valley) Made” by Rebekah Iliff, Director of Product at AirPR. The article discusses gender stereotypes facing women in tech and highlights the many roles women actually play in the growing tech landscape. Read on for excerpts from [...]

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Vixely Interview on The Grindstone: Founders Tell Us How They Get Sex to Be Taken Seriously

Check out Vixely’s feature on The Grindstone, where we tell editor Meredith Lepore our experience as female entrepreneurs and changing the dialogue around one of women’s most important topics. The Founders Of Vixely Tell Us How They Get Sex To Be Taken Seriously by Meredith Lepore at The Grindstone Sex is everywhere. It’s on television, [...]

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NYC: 3 Hours Ahead of Silicon Valley

My Wednesday night out on the town in New York City was the perfect mix of several of my favorite things: first, an intriguing discussion with leaders in the media industry, followed by NYC vs. SF smack talk with NY investors and ending with a killer lobster roll and  strong cocktails with old friends at Grey [...]

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