By Jordan Parker Local millennial designer and business owner Dexter Wilkie got his acumen for style by shadowing a leading designer himself. Now the owner of the successful Dexter Wilkie Design Group, he’s enjoying the success and freedom that comes with running his...
By Andrew Macdonald The pandemic has been particularly hard on emerging millennial entrepreneurs, folk aged 25 to 37, defining an age group who are passionate and enthused about being their own bosses in the City of Halifax. Dedicated readers of The Notebook are...
By Andrew Macdonald When Ian MacLeod left a dedicated paycheque working in an office building in Downtown Halifax last November and bravely launched into becoming a millennial entrepreneur in Dec. 2019 - his company forecast did not include a pandemic and the ensuing...
By Andrew Macdonald Millennial Entrepreneur: Lunenburg Raised Graham Mann As A Founder Meet A Millennial Entrepreneur Raised near Lunenburg, and now residing in Montreal, Graham Mann is a twenty-seven-year-old who has founded two companies, making him a millennial...
By Andrew Macdonald The Millennial Entrepreneur, Part II - Explained The Macdonald Notebook’s column, Meet The Millennial Entrepreneur, launched as a Journalism News Feature last December. The idea of the column came from a regional billionaire, who not only reads me...
By Andrew Macdonald
Story Update: Café Lara Expands Its Food Offering
I heard from Lara Cusson on Wednesday, and she reports exciting news developments for her year-old independent coffee shop, on Agricola Street.
Reports Cusson: Taco Lina’s, owned by the Rinaldo brothers, has relocated inside Café Lara”.
By Andrew Macdonald
Highly ambitious and quite successful millennial entrepreneur Nic Merry is poised to take his growing storefront Halifax-Sydney Geebo cell phone repair chain to the franchise market.
Speaking from his new two week old storefront on the city’s ultimate pedestrian street, Spring Garden Road, in the Lord Nelson Arcade, he tells me he will roll out a franchise program – and he is eyeing the world market.
By Andrew Macdonald
Redesigning The Notebook website
As part of readership feedback, which I have been hearing as I began to meet with business leaders and politicos last fall, as part of a mission to see how to improve The Notebook, a constant theme I heard was to make the website more visually appealing.
And, so my talented Antigonish web development team began working towards a complete top to bottom redesign last December.
The fruits of that effort now result in what you see as a new 100% overhaul of the former website.
There is word that commercial landlord Patrick Jabbour has done a leasing deal with an operator who plans to bring a coffee shop and deli to the corner of Gottingen & Almon streets.
Jabbour will rent out the former Subway shop in is building adjacent Stadacona.
I hope to talk to the café owner in an upcoming edition of The Notebook.
By Andrew Macdonald As I recently wrote, my Notebook Advisory Board members have tasked me with finding and celebrating women entrepreneurs in Halifax & Nova Scotia on the pages of The Notebook. So I am pleased today to chronicle the entrepreneurial zest of Vicki...
