Jul 1
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
I am not an eavesdropper.
At least not most of the time.
But in some situations, eavesdropping can be quite conducive to learning. And the best place to do so is at Starbucks. Read more
I noticed a flurry of articles on the web about dads and entrepreneurship as we headed into Father’s Day weekend. And since I’m on my own journey of entrepreneurism with the kids, I took the time to read through as many of them as I could.
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