Canopy launches its fourth cohort of cannabis companies on August 29th – 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?
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Let's define some verticals in the marijuana market for future reference and focus.
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MJBizDaily posted a terrific interview with former Deputy Attorney General James Cole regarding his definitive memos in 2011, 2013, and 2014. The most famous of these is the Cole Memo of 2013, which outlined eight priorities for DOJ/law enforcement with regards to state-legal cannabis markets.
Here's a great write-up by the New York Times on the underlying economics and social impact of the $1 billion acquisiiton of Dollar Shave Club by Unilever. "$1 Billion for Dollar Shave Club: Why Every Company Should Worry" by Steven Davidoff Solomon.
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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.
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Unilever purchased Dollar Shave Club for an even one billion dollars. Let's look at four metric from publicly available data (WSJ - paywall) on the transaction.
