271: Helping People to Help Themselves with Serial Entrepreneur Stephen Culp co-Founder and Owner of Price Waiter and Delegator and Smart Furniture

Stephen Culp desires to help people help themselves, an attribute reflected in all aspects of his life. As a former Navy Reserve officer and member of the Peace Corps, and now the co-founder and CEO of PriceWaiter; and Delegator which is a digital advertising agency, and SmartFurniture which a custom furniture company, Stephen has made a career out of supporting entrepreneurs and creative thinkers.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Elon Musk

When business started difficulties overcame:

“My main difficulty in starting my business was being a one man show for too long, one man wearing many many hats, I was the manufacturer, the shipper, the delivery boy the CEO and that was something that taught me a lot but didn’t give me much time to take that sample of one and expand it to many”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Book by Dale Wasserman
The Right Stuff Book by Tom Wolfe

Favourite Quote:

“Win” Rocky 2

Recommended Online Resources:

Flip Board – is your personal magazine, the single place for all your interests, used by millions of people everyday Reading, collecting and sharing
Ben Evans – Mobile and digital media strategy and analysis

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“When you are in your start up, you can either hang with everybody else who is doing all the same stuff and look for smaller opportunities and try to cultivate them as best you can, or you can go for the big ones”…[Listen for More]

More About Stephen Culp:

PriceWaiter

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Other Quotes From the Chat with Stephen Culp:

• “Get incredibly organised, drop all your excuses for not being able to show up on time or getting your work done, anyone that tries will be surprised from the about of additional productivity they can get from them self simply my squeezing a little bit harder”
• “If you got a good team, you all inspire each other to work together, that makes all the difference”
• ”My main difficulty in starting my business was being a one man show for too long”
• “Expand your network early”

Did you like what you heard?

If you liked this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes! Visit https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-entrepreneur-way/id1080600330 to discover the iTunes page. If you found value in this episode why don't you help a friend out and share this episode on Social Media