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Aug 19

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Austin From Scratch: An Interview with Wes Hurt, Founder of Hey Cupcake!

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 this session of Austin From Scratch, we sat down with Wes Hurt, Founder of Hey Cupcake! to talk about catfish, freedom and the Vanilla Dream.  This interview comes on the heels of  a recent AdVenture where Owen and Malia learned how Hey Cupcake! makes their world-famous treats. Read more

Aug 15

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Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship

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.)  While this articles discusses entreprenurism as a tool out of poverty for at-risk youth, the message has universal appeal and can be applied to any school.  In fact, the last sentence of the entire article sums it up best, “Because I own my business, I know I have a future.” Read more

Aug 8

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10 Steps to Teaching Your Kids to Become Entrepreneurs

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

Aug 5

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Book Review: KIDPRENEUR$ (Young Entrepreneurs with BIG Ideas!)

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

Jul 29

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July’s AdVenture: Owen’s Rock Collection

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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