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 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.