18 Jan, 2012
Can You Handle the Truth? Honestly Now.
Posted by Stacy
Have you had any burning questions recently, the kind where you’re not sure if your friends will give you the straight scoop? Well there’s a hot new site for that, and it’s born in Westchester. It’s called
HonestlyNow.com (
www.honestlynow.com).
Is it OK to send thank you notes over Facebook? Should I ditch or keep this really expensive suit from 2005? Should I tell my friend I saw her husband out with another woman? If you’re asking it IRL (that’s webspeak for “in real life”) — then, sorry to say it — your friends might be lying.
With a background in market research and social networks, founder and CEO Tereza Nemessanyi realized the way to solve that is via blind real-time surveys — now possible with the latest technology.
She seeks to “disrupt Dear Abby” with this fresh new take on online Q&A and floating life’s thorny out to the crowd for a group vote — while you keep your name anonymous. A native Pound Ridger and Fox Lane alumna, she was inspired by the sudden loss of her parents, which coincided with her experience as a new mother.
“I was used to straight talk from my parents. Their voices went missing, at a moment in my life when I had more questions and decisions to make than ever. So I decided to ‘make an app for that’ — a website which would basically digitize the goodness I got from my mom. I wanted the straight truth, fast — plus great advice, a warm hug, and actionable next steps.”
And she delivers with an amazingly fun experience that’s backed up by some of the best experts on the planet, across style, relationships, business, career, travel and really anything else you’d want to ask. (And — shameless plug! — our very own
Stacy Geisinger. W00t!)
In a world of social networks launched exclusively by men, Honestly Now uniquely is wired around how women think and the conversations we want to have.
“I found the very juiciest conversations from my analog life were not finding their way to Facebook and Twitter.”
Investors took notice and in the summer she raised a Series A round from Golden Seeds, the nation’s leading group of angel investors focusing on women-led businesses, and she was recently named one of Forbes’ Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch.
But honestly — who cares about that stuff? The point is Honestly Now is damn fun and incredibly useful. Why make a mistake if you don’t have to?!
Get on Honestly Now, get your ASK on, and get the monkey off your back. You’ll be glad you did.
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