Skip to content

Posts tagged ‘Family’

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

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

Taco Wagon Success

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: 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

How to Raise Your Kids to Be Entrepreneurs

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