276: Turning History Into a Million Dollar Idea with R.T. Custer
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
-Building conversation pieces
-Getting funding for your startup
-Solving unexpected problems in your industry
-The resource bottleneck
-Picking up lessons from history
Resources:
-Learn more at vorticwatches.com
-Instagram: instagram.com/vorticwatches
Show Notes:
R.T. Custer is the founder and CEO of Vortic Watch Company, these incredible, reclaimed 100-year-old pocket watches turned into modern day wrist watches without losing any of their original integrity. He's turned these living pieces of history into a million dollar company. He started this company in college, and he is a perfect example of what can happen when you take any crazy idea you may have and execute on it.
Question Highlights:
-Where did the idea for this company come from?
-How do you ensure your product works for a hundred years?
-Do you have trouble finding people qualified to do this work?
-How do you compete with the big watchmakers?
-Why is this blowing up among entrepreneurs?
-What is the best business lesson that you've pulled from history?
-Why do we feel scarcity around building up the team we need?
-Where are you taking this company in 5 years?
Guest Bio:
R.T. Custer is an Entrepreneur living in Fort Collins, Colorado with his girlfriend and 2 young sons. R.T. grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm near Reading, Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University where he studied Industrial Engineering. Besides helping to run the family farm, his first entrepreneurial journey was a franchise of College Works Painting, an MLM in the exterior house painting business. R.T. started Vortic Watch Company in college and has grown it to a 7 figure company through the help of his team and advisors. Vortic manufactures one of a kind wristwatches using antique American pocket watch mechanisms. Vortic's tagline is "America Wasn't Assembled, It was Built" because they make one of the only truly American made wristwatches.
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| 0:00.0 | especially for today's American entrepreneur, we don't want something that anyone else can just buy. |
| 0:10.0 | So a Vortic watch every single one is one of a kind |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:26.3 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips and |
| 0:31.2 | stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:34.4 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:39.1 | in order to prove that when good people make good money, |
| 0:42.3 | they do great things. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to another incredible episode of For the Love of of money I cannot wait for you to |
| 0:54.5 | listen to today's episode because I'm sitting down with somebody who I really |
| 0:58.5 | respect and who's really become a good friend of mine and his name is |
| 1:02.4 | RT Kuster now RT is the founder and |
| 1:06.2 | CEO of Vortic Watch Company and some of you know what that is already |
| 1:11.6 | some of you may not have come across Fordick watches yet, |
| 1:14.9 | but they are these incredible 100-plus year-old pocket watches |
| 1:21.4 | that are reclaimed, found from like scrap piles, and turned into |
| 1:29.3 | modern day wrist watches without losing any of the integrity of this 100 year old watch that it is. |
| 1:37.4 | And they are absolutely amazing one of a kind pieces of functional art and he's turned at this company, this idea |
| 1:46.5 | that nobody else was doing, he's turned this company into a multi million dollar company |
| 1:51.5 | and that's why I wanted to interview him today is he is |
| 1:55.8 | literally a walking metaphor for so many of you to be inspired by because he |
| 2:00.8 | started this company with an idea because he and a buddy, and a buddy, |
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