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The New York Times article, "Help For a Small Business Trying to Catch a Fire", about small businesses looking to expand and scale, highlights the role of business accelerators. As the number of accelerator programs have risen in the last several years, the article provides some interesting facts:

Topics: Entrepreneurship

Sam Zartoshty, Co-founder

Hometown: Agoura Hills, CA

Company: Paragon, a cannabis-friendly, professional network that connects individuals, entrepreneurs, investors and companies.

 

How did you develop the concept for Paragon?

Topics: Company Info, Entrepreneurship

Early September marks the time when summer vacations end, that crisp hint of fall becomes reality, and the world goes back to work. Trade shows and industry events events ramp up again, and cannabis is no different: when the kids go back to school, we settle in for a new season of selling. As 2017 inches closer, Colorado has already sold over $600 million in marijuana sales with a predicted $1.35 billion finish; November 8 ^th brings incredible possibility for legalization; and the cannabis industry as a whole gains more momentum with each passing day.  If you’re a cannabis professional, investor, or simply canna-curious, these are a few of the major cannabis events rounding out 2016:

 

Topics: Insider

The cannabis industry's first accelerator program invests another $180,000 in nine startups in Berkeley, California

Topics: Company Info

Canopy launches its fourth cohort of cannabis companies on August 29^th – less than two weeks away. After two years in beautiful Boulder, we’ve pivoted to the Bay Area, launching the Fall 2016 class in our new Berkeley, CA, location. We’re often asked why. Why leave Colorado and its successful, booming recreational and medical marijuana industry?

Topics: Company Info

It’s no secret that the cannabis industry has a pesticide problem, with solutions yet to be determined. Marijuana ecommerce platform Tradiv (a cannabis startup and CanopyBoulder alumni) recently to implement quality assurance processes to help confront this problem head-on.

Topics: Company Info, Entrepreneurship