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Jul 19

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Sharing in our Success

If you’ve ever visited the Shafer…Power! blog, you know one of our goals for the journey is to share in our success.  In fact, we shared a story in a recent post about donating food to the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas.  Well, an interesting thing happened after we made that donation.  We were contacted by CAFB as they wanted to interview us about our entrepreneurial journey and our contribution to their organization.  Below is a re-post of the article from their blog (the original can be found here). Read more

Jul 15

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Dear America: It’s time to up our entrepreneurial game

This is a re-post of a great article from fortune.cnn.com (the original can be found here). I typically prefer to provide my own content for most posts but found this article to be very much in-line with some of the things we’ve discussed here at Shafer…Power!  The only commentary I would add is “make sure you keep it fun for the youngsters and super-size that creativity.” Read more

Jul 11

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July’s AdVenture: Custom Pastries

Welcome to AdVentures.  In this column, we’ll take a closer look at our family’s entrepreneurial venture of the month.  We’ve already hosted a taco wagon and a coffee stand and made and sold homemade chocolate bars.  Rumors of future projects such as publishing a children’s book and designing a girl’s handbag can neither be confirmed nor denied.  As with all AdVentures, the goal is to have some fun with the kids and learn more about entrepreneurism. Read more

Jul 8

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Dynamite Toy Review: Uno

Dynamite Toy Reviews is a series on the blog where Owen and Malia review various learning toys and tools.  Since many parents are interested in items that advance their children’s development, we’ve decided to lend a hand by providing our own unique insight.  As with everything we do here at Shafer…Power!, we’ll try to have some fun with the process.  (If you’re wondering what this has to do with entrepreneurism, you’ll just have to stick with us…wink wink.) Read more

Jul 5

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The Bottom Line: June, 2012

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

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