Millennial Entrepreneurs

Michelle Strum realized early on the education and experience she wanted in life wouldn’t come from a classroom.

She grew up in Mahone Bay, and after she graduated high school she went straight to Australia on a student work-abroad visa. This was where her love of hostels began.

“I just loved where I was staying when I travelled. I’m a big picture and a political person. I love to see the world globally, and how systems interact,” says Strum, owner of Halifax’s Backpackers Hostel and the associated Alteregos Café & Catering.

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 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 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

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.