Make room, date night. The solos are coming. A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that big brand marketers–from General Mills to Whirlpool–are discovering an expanding market of people who live on their own. From single-serving cake mixes to low-capacity washing machines to oversized rolls of toilet paper (actually that one is kind of baffling), new products are being designed specifically for the millions of adults who live on their own. And not surprisingly, “

About that app... At Mixolo, we're digesting our share of the idiomatic humble pie, containing traces of crow, but we continue to thrive on persistence, gratitude and crazy optimism. At last report, we mentioned that the outsourcing of the Mixolo app development generated less than desirable results. Our hopes of having our platform released by late Fall 2017 were not dashed but definitely delayed. We gained “custody” of all of our IP (intellectual property) by Thanksgiving

Don’t Opt Out This Holiday Season Because You’re Solo Many of us find ourselves riding solo for the holidays. Maybe you just moved to a new city and don’t know many people. Or perhaps your family is traveling. The holiday season is a time of tradition, but traditions have a knack for morphing into expectations — like presents under the tree, holiday parties and spending time with family and friends. If you spend much or all of the holiday season on your own, traditions don’t

Could this be you? When was the last time you were greeted at a restaurant with the question, “just one?” Or were cautioned by friends against traveling alone? How many times have you passed on a wine festival or a concert because your partner doesn’t like the music you like – or prefers gin – and you’re tired of dragging a pouty plus-one, so it’s easier to skip the whole ordeal? Here’s the thing: more than half of all meals in the U.S. are eaten solo. And traveling alone enc

Mixolo founder Carolyn Walton Lynch hit upon the idea of curating events for solos after she realized she was passing on wonderful experiences because she just didn’t want to go alone. “There are two things going on,” says Lynch, a business consultant and CPA who co-founded an IT services firm. “First, people shy away from stepping into a milieu when they are solo. And second, they are often greeted with a patronizing look, or words like, ‘Just one?’” Society, she adds “has