I was attracted to work with Cole because, as a lifelong musician myself and someone who believes in the power of music I want to help get more kids playing an instrument rather than video games. Cole had a few challenges with his startup guitar lessons...
The Right Location is Not Always Visible They say location, location, location is the most important in the retail and restaurant business. Generally that means high traffic and high rent. Finding the right location for Solly’s however, was more about having a clear vision and overcoming...
Like many new entrepreneurs, we started Solly’s with a very limited budget. We scraped, borrowed and begged to get just enough money to do renovations to the space and buy used bakery equipment. My partner was a landscape designer by trade so she was able to...
Like many Vancouver cafes, at the time we wanted to put art up on our cafe walls. So we put the call out to local artists, in the Main street and Vancouver Jewish community. Local talented artists could expose their art to Solly's large customer...
I have been a "serious hobby musician" for the most part of my life (which means I play professionally but not enough to make a living at it). I sing and play bass guitar with the Usual Suspects, a band I formed over 20 years...
I worked almost 10 years in the advertising business as an account executive in a prominent agency. I was the client’s representative to the agency and the agency's rep to the client. Balancing the sometimes conflicting needs of both the client and the agency was...
Coming from an advertising background my instinct, in my own business was to look for ways to leverage the power of the media to help build our brand. Publicity is valuable, especially if it's on the 6pm TV news for free. The local CTV television had...
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...