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...
By Andrew Macdonald Update: Millennial Entrepreneur Dave Culligan takes home the hardware I recently profiled Dave Culligan and his two-year agency upstart, threesixfive, and the firm this week won the bronze prize for New Business of The Year at a gala hosted by the...
By Andrew Macdonald Our Next Millennial Entrepreneur News Subject Hails From Bridgewater & Co-Founded Biz In Aviation Industry in Montreal & New York City - Graham Mann For my fourth installment of my new column, Meet A Millennial Entrepreneur, I touch base...
By Andrew Macdonald When Banks Won’t Loan To An Upstart Millennial Entrepreneur: Dave Culligan, Part II On Saturday in my new column, Meet A Millennial Entrepreneur, I detailed the incredible story of just 27-year old Dave Culligan. He took a hobby of making home made...
By Andrew Macdonald Dave Culligan, a new millennial entrepreneur - he is just 27 - wants to be an agency disruptor in Halifax - Part III He owns fledgling agency entity, threesixfive, based in Downtown Halifax. I told his story in my new column Meet A Millennial...
By Andrew Macdonald As part of my new focus on up and coming millennial entrepreneurs, I sat down with Dave Culligan who just days ago expanded his Halifax-headquartered video production, content, branding and strategy advice agency firm into Toronto. He is the...
