Honeyfund: Don’t Want To Climb The Corporate Ladder? – with Sara Margulis

Sara Margulis, Honeyfund, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Non-Tech, Women Founders

How did a woman who didn’t want to climb the corporate ladder bootstrap a profitable company?

Sara Margulis is the founder of Honeyfund, an online wedding gift registry. Her latest site is PlumFund, the first free, crowd-funding web site.

Sara Margulis

Honeyfund

Sara Margulis is the CEO at Honeyfund which is an online wedding gift registry.

 

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Screenshots from Honeyfund’s past

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