Aug 12
Welcome to AdVentures! In this series, we’ll take a closer look at our family’s entrepreneurial venture of the month. In past months, we’ve hosted a taco wagon, a coffee stand and made and sold homemade chocolate bars. For August’s event, we were fortunate to partner with a local favorite, Hey Cupcake!, to learn about making great cupcakes. As with all AdVentures, the goal is to have some fun with the kids and learn more about entrepreneurism. Read more
There are so many inspiring and informative articles on the web supplementing our family’s journey of entrepreneurism…that I have decided to add a new category to our blog. Welcome to Shafspiration! In this series, I’ll be re-posting the best of the web’s best – not only because learning is one of our goals for the journey – but it also adds to the fun and AdVenture.
(This week’s original post can be found here.) The only other step I would add to this list is a reminder, “If the kids are having fun, you’re definitely doing something right.” Read more
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
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