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How to hire – and train – a product development lead for your cannabis company

Your cannabis company thrives, or dies, on the products it produces. Product development leads help firms dream up new goods to sell, including infused products and accessories, as well as services such as technology platforms for ancillary software companies. When it comes to choosing the … [Continue]

Baker Technologies Morphed from Consumer-Facing company into a B2B Venture

Joel Milton avoids running in place. The CEO of Baker Technologies has engineered two dramatic changes that launched his Denver technology company on an entirely new trajectory than when he founded it four years ago. For starters, Milton transformed Baker from a consumer-facing company into … [Continue]

Q&A with Jennifer M. Sanders, Founder and CEO of CNS Equity Partners

How did you identify this business opportunity in the cannabis sector? What was your “aha” moment? It was not an “aha” moment. It was grief. My mom passed away, and I did home hospice her last few months of life. A friend from Harvard Medical … [Continue]

Wil Ralston Sets Sights on Ancillary Companies

Since launching in 2014, Seattle-based SinglePoint has grown from a full-service mobile technology firm into a diversified public holding company. With a portfolio that includes payment solutions, ancillary cannabis services and blockchain technology, the company began trading on the over-the-counter market earlier this year under … [Continue]

How to hire and manage a social media specialist

Promoting and marketing your cannabis business with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram can be fraught with peril. You can spend months building up a loyal fan base, only to have a social medial platform shutter your account overnight. That’s why choosing … [Continue]

Infused Business Strategies: Seeing Green

Sophisticated manufacturing, strategic product development and pricing, and vertical integration are keys to Green Gorilla’s success in the CBD market Type CBD into a search engine and it will populate with new brand names every day, said Steve DeForest, the chief operating officer and chief … [Continue]

Fighting Prohibition … Again

Five questions with Ben Kovler, CEO of Green Thumb Industries and Jim Beam heir   As more states legalize cannabis and the industry charts a path to explode globally, it’s “Prohibition 2.0” according to Ben Kovler, CEO of Green Thumb Industries (GTI) and heir to … [Continue]