1843: Blowing Your Business up and Making it the Biggest Business That You Can with Carter “Critt” Waugh Founder and Co-Owner of Critts

Founder, visionary and overall goofball is a talented 11 year old named Carter “Critt” Waugh. He is a very active leader with an active imagination. He loves sports and is a talented lacrosse attackman. He loves his friends, his family and basically he loves anything that gets him dirty and sweaty. He has been the perfect test subject for his creation.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Joe Foster Founder of Reebok
• Carter’s Dad, Ryan Waugh owner of Waugh Family Wines
  

When business started difficulties overcame:

“When I started it, I didn’t know what I was doing… I was fear of the unknown… It was really scary at first. And travelling to LA and seeing all of these factories and everybody and just putting it all together made me really nervous… It was really scary and when I talked to adults at first when they were like asking questions that I didn’t know and then I got really nervous and I stumbled on my words. But now that I have been doing this for a long time, I know what to do”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

• Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand Book by Joe Foster
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight

Favourite Quote:

• “with power comes great responsibility”
• “family is first and always”

Recommended Online Resources:

None

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“keep going, perseverance, put family first, write things down and blow your business up, make it the biggest business that you can ”…[Listen for More]

More About Carter Waugh:

Critts

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” Wayne Dyer

Other Quotes From the Chat with Carter Waugh:

• “work hard, keep going, make sure to share your idea with everybody that you know. Maybe get an Instagram account or a Facebook account just for your company. You can expand it and make ads… And also, perseverance. That’s what I did, I had perseverance.”
• “When I first started out, I thought shoes were not complicated at all but once I did this over time, I learned that it was complicated and I understood it. At first I just didn’t understand that at all so I feel that would have helped me a lot if I had known that”
• “if you can advertise then you can make your company really big”

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