Posts tagged ‘Inspiration’

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 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

Jun 24

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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

May 16

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5 Characters with Character

I’ve talked a lot recently about our goals for Shafer…Power!, however, I haven’t spent much time discussing how we’re going to accomplish them. Therefore, I’d like to dedicate this post to what I feel are the most important traits of entrepreneurs who are working to change the world…and how the kids and I will try to leverage some of these traits to accomplish our goals.

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