Aug 5
About two months ago, I was introduced to Matthew Toren, c0-author of KIDPRENEUR$: Young Entrepreneurs with BIG Ideas! and co-founder of kidpreneurs.org. Admittedly, I was very inspired by his story. After all, our family had recently started our own journey of entrepreneurism and Matthew and his brother had a created a website and written a book on the topic. Read more
The Bottom Line is a series that was first introduced on the Shafer…Power! blog in April, 2012. Whereas the business definition of bottom line is “the line in a financial statement that shows net income or loss,” here we do a brief recap of our progress toward our goals. Since “Earn Some Spare Change” is our fourth goal, we’ll provide an update on our actual bottom line as well. Read more
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
The Bottom Line is a series that was first introduced on the Shafer…Power! blog in April, 2012. Whereas the business definition of bottom line is “the line in a financial statement that shows net income or loss,” here we do a brief recap of our progress toward our goals. Since “Earn Some Spare Change” is our fourth goal, we’ll provide an update on our actual bottom line as well. Read more
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
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