Kendra Scott funded her first orders by selling her $1,200 sample set.
Kendra Scott · Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott · Mar 20, 2017 · at 12:14
Kendra Scott describes pitching local Austin boutiques door-to-door with her newborn son to launch Kendra Scott jewelry.
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“Literally the last store I went to that day, I had to sell my entire sample set. So that I would have enough money to buy the materials I needed to produce the orders I wrote that day, and I came home with a check for 1200 dollars”
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