Jul 8
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
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
Welcome to AdVentures. In this series, we’ll take a closer look at our family’s entrepreneurial venture of the month. We’ve already hosted a thrift sale, a coffee stand and made and sold homemade chocolate bars. For June’s event, which was inspired by Torchy, we sold tacos using our children’s wagon. As with all AdVentures, the goal is to have some fun with the kids and learn more about entrepreneurism. Read more
Austin From Scratch is our newest series on the blog and includes interviews with local entrepreneurs who have created a thriving business here in the heart of Texas. For our inaugural session we sat down with Mike Rypka, aka Torchy, to talk about his inspiration for starting a taco stand, being a young comedian and Torchy’s world famous Green Chile Pork and Baja Shrimp Tacos. As we discussed in a post earlier this month, Torchy’s is the inspiration for our upcoming AdVenture. Read more
This is a re-post of a great article from Inc. Magazine (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! Personally, I would add a sixth item to the list…make sure you’ve having fun! Read more
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