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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 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 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

Jun 28

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Austin From Scratch: An Interview with Torchy

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

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