When LivePlan Doesn’t Cut It…. how much should you invest in your business plan?
I’ve seen dozens of automated financial projections and business plans from LivePlan floating around this past year, and look, I totally get it! When you’re starting a business or tracking down an investor, money isn’t always flowing abundantly. Using an online...
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Will the Cannabis Delivery Market Deliver?
There are more than 200 unlicensed delivery businesses floating around Michigan, but it was Donnell Cravens, the former manager of Utopia Gardens, who did the state’s first legal delivery himself. “The first one was very close to our shop—a patient with some mobility...
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How to Raise Money for your Cannabis Business
Have you ever heard of an entrepreneur raising millions of dollars and assumed they had something you didn’t? Perhaps you thought they had more money, a killer network, or a genius technical co-founder? I’ve helped cannabis businesses raise millions of dollars over...
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Beyond Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency & Cannabis
In January of 2014, just as dispensaries in Colorado began opening their doors to anyone over the age of 21, Bitcoin went mainstream, receiving backing from major Silicon Valley venture capitalists.[1] The intersection between the two underground worlds seemed...
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What’s your cannabis company worth?
Determining a valuation for a cannabis business is more of an art than a science. In any industry, investors and entrepreneurs or buyers and sellers come to the table with different ideas about how much a business is worth. When you combine this nuanced process with...
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Hemp Versus Cannabis: Untangling a Web of Politics, Science, & Semantics
In July of 2017, Charlotte’s Web cannabidiol oil made a brief appearance on the shelves at Target. Charlotte’s Web— which is marketed as “a hemp extract oil dietary supplement”—was quickly removed from Target’s site, but not before stirring a murky pot of confusing...
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Legalization in Latin America: Top 5 Takeaways from CannabiSalud
Last weekend, scientific researchers, patients, activists, physicians and cannabis businesses from all over the world gathered in Guadalajara, Mexico for CannabiSalud. This conference was the first of its kind—a Latin American symposium dedicated to medical cannabis...
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Genomic Mapping: The New Cannabis Luxury Experience
Luxury cannabis brands have been having a moment in the media. But as these businesses compete to land on dispensary shelves, the best business and investment opportunities are brewing behind the scenes. Cannabis is an active agricultural industry, with significant...
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Rebranding: Green Pioneer is now Diagon!
Four years ago, I quit a job at a private equity firm in New York City to follow my dream of being an entrepreneur. It was a jagged path but I ended up in Colorado, creating a business that connects entrepreneurs, investors, ideas, and resources within the cannabis...
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Silver Linings: Your cannabis business matters more now than ever before
As an analyst, I spend a lot of time creating quantitative models that attempt to provide some insight into humans and their decision-making processes. In the real world, all basic assumptions of economics are off. Our minds are flooded with fears, aspirations,...
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