Aug 5
About two months ago, I was introduced to Matthew Toren, c0-author of KIDPRENEUR$: Young Entrepreneurs with BIG Ideas! and co-founder of kidpreneurs.org. Admittedly, I was very inspired by his story. After all, our family had recently started our own journey of entrepreneurism and Matthew and his brother had a created a website and written a book on the topic. Read more
The Bottom Line is a series that was first introduced on the Shafer…Power! blog in April, 2012. Whereas the business definition of bottom line is “the line in a financial statement that shows net income or loss,” here we do a brief recap of our progress toward our goals. Since “Earn Some Spare Change” is our fourth goal, we’ll provide an update on our actual bottom line as well. Read more
Earlier this month, we posted that July’s AdVenture was going to involve some sort of custom pastry. Well, a couple of things happened since then so we’ve elected to change it up a bit. For starters, a lengthy vacation back to Wisconsin took us off course, and then Owen created a rock selling business without any of our involvement (insert proud father moment here). Since he was able to create a nice little profit, we’ve changed this month’s AdVenture to Owen’s Rock Collection and are including an abbreviated Austin From Scratch segment where we interview the Founder. Yep, we’re riding the wave! Read more
Before I re-post another article, I need to put a disclaimer out there that I really enjoy reading articles about my current interests and have uncovered a ton of great stuff about entrepreneurism. I think the following is further justification as to why young people should be exploring non-traditional careers (entrepreneur) and aren’t just assuming college will be the right answer (the original article can be found here). On a similar note, I recently read the average student loan debt now exceeds $25K. Read more
We’re fresh off a ten-day vacation from visiting our families back in Wisconsin, which means this post will contain several deep thoughts – some of questionable importance. (Insert smile here.) I can’t assure you my brain is back at 100% percent, but there’s really only one way to find out. So here goes…below is a list of my top five reflections from this year’s summer vacation:
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