Posts by Kate

Rebecca Minkoff built a global brand with a wide range of apparel, handbags, footwear, jewelry and accessories (including tech). She’s also an icon, a mentor, an innovator, a thought leader, and a media personality. Rebecca joins Socialfly co-founders Stephanie Cartin and Courtney Spritzer for a conversation about building her business and career, and describes her…Read More

Be all in. That’s the philosophy of Intraprenista Kasey O’Leary, Vice President of Global Marketing for what she calls “a 100 year old startup”, one of the biggest names in hospitality and hotels: Hilton. From her start in a family ad agency business to marketing books and music for Borders, to being an agent of…Read More

Launching the next huge business would be a massive challenge for anyone. But high level business experience and two years of focus have kept Julie Bornstein on the path to the next level of success. Julie is the  Founder of The Yes, a new shopping app built with you in mind. Your sizes. Your brands.…Read More

Build what you can sell, don’t sell what you can build. Great advice from Miami-based entrepreneur Andrea Lisbona, the founder and CEO of Touchland: a vegan, cruelty-free hand sanitizer that makes your skin happy, kills 99.9% of germs, and smells great! In 2010, Andrea decided to take hand hygiene to a whole new level with a…Read More

If you think you can get cheese from plants, you are right. Case and point: Miyoko Schinner, the tenacious, award-winning vegan celebrity chef, cookbook author, and animal sanctuary founder behind the dairy-free cheese brand Miyoko’s Creamery. Her passion for her craft and mission is unrivaled as a leading advocate for the right of vegan food products…Read More

“Find your path to yes.” Wise words from model-turned-business-powerhouse Alexandra Cristin, a self-proclaimed ‘accidental entrepreneur’ who built her company, Glam Seamless, from just a thousand dollars all the way through being acquired as an eight-figure empire. Alexandra joins Socialfly co-founder Stephanie Cartin for a conversation about building her company and her journeys to success, including how…Read More

This dynamo serial entrepreneur and retail real estate expert has an impressive track record of building three successful New York-based businesses and a notable portfolio of real estate. Yet, Pam Wolf says being a mom is the greatest passion she didn’t know she had. Pam founded the NY Kids Club, disrupting the children’s education market…Read More

Tracy Chadwell, Founding Partner of 1843 Capital (an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies with diverse founding teams) knows something about money. She was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Powerful Women” and Forbes “8 Women VC’s to know.” She also knows something about the definition of success, and why being flexible…Read More

One of the biggest challenges of launching a company is transitioning from the security and support of a corporate job into the unknown, and how your former corporate allies may question every move you make. For Alexandra Zatarain, cofounder of  EIGHT SLEEP (the world’s first sleep fitness company), she had both the trust in and…Read More

Things turn out the best for those who make the best of what turns out. So says Lindsay McCormick, co-founder of Bite Toothpaste Bits, who launched a business that was inspired well beyond money, after watching a documentary about the plastic crisis in our oceans. She and her co-founder did the nearly impossible, getting on…Read More