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Jul 25

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Private student loan debt reaches $150 billion

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

Jul 22

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Gone Fishin’

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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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

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