Sarah Shaw

Sarah understands not only the complexity of a start-up, but also the thrill of it: “I love coaching people and teaching the steps to take, in the right order, so they can save time and money and shorten their learning curve, which means they can stay focused on the creativity and fun of being an entreprenette,” says Sarah.

Sarah’s visual sense and creative talents showed themselves early: she studied costume design at Bennington College and the University of California, Berkeley and then moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a costume supervisor for film and TV. In 1998, she developed a very successful line of handbags that were embraced by celebrities and sold in over 1200 boutiques and major department stores throughout the US. Within a year Sarah Shaw Handbags could be found on the pages of InStyle, Oprah, People, Lucky and Marie Claire magazines.

When Sarah realized that her flare for design and conceptualization translated easily into ideas for home and lifestyle products, she created her patented Handy Hold All® and launched Simply Sarah, an e-commerce website that is committed to providing beautiful and practical products for the home.

The innovative designer and entrepreneur was also behind the successful, made-to-order costume company, Raggs to Order, which they manufactured costumes for Matrix 2, Matrix 3, Ocean’s 11 and Star Trek 8, among many others.

Sarah currently resides in Durango, CO. When she isn’t designing or helping to guide new businesses, she enjoys entertaining, gardening, and doing crafts with her five-year-old twin daughters in the hopes that they will come up with her next great invention.