Posts tagged ‘Entrepreneur’

Aug 15

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

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

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

A Family's Journey of Entrepreneurism…Fueled by Fun and Adventure.