Travis Steffen, the CEO of GrowFlow has an incredible entrepreneurial background and has been the founder/co-founder of eleven different companies. His background also includes being an advisor to numerous companies and a venture partner, too.
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PHOTO COURTESY: JACOB KARP
This was the pitch and it was one I found irresistible.
My name is Jacob Karp, I’m 27 years old and I was born and raised in Arizona. I’ve had a passion for cannabis my entire life and have pursued a career in the field before the medical program was established in the state of Arizona.
PHOTO COURTESY: ZACH LIPSON
This was the pitch… Quite a good one I should add…
The cannabis industry is one of the fastest-growing in the world, and by 2025, a quarter of all retail spending will be online. COVID has only accelerated the trend of online ordering. One company has experienced a 700% growth rate since March and just announced a $35M Series B round with big name investors like former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. The largest and fastest-growing e-commerce solution for cannabis, Dutchie, is powering dispensaries to quickly and easily sell products online while allowing customers to purchase their products for pick-up or delivery. Are you interested in going behind the scenes with CPO/Co-founder Zach Lipson to learn more + get a preview into other big upcoming announcements? Quick pitch below.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PAX LABS.
From the moment I discovered the newest incarnation of the PAX 3 vaporizer resplendent in an array of sophisticated colors with a premium matte finish — Onyx, Sand, Burgundy and my favorite, Sage), I knew the old ones were still best-in-class but that they’ve raised the bar, once again, with this stylish collection. The new colors are arriving just in time for autumn and the holiday gift giving season, and are available in both the Basic Kit for dry herb (pack your PAX with a few of my craft cannabis suggestions from Father’s Day last year) and the Complete Kit with concentrate insert.
PHOTO COURTESY: CARY NEIMAN
I was immediately intrigued when the ebullient owner of Mazel Tov Farms reached out with a story unlike any I’d covered prior. Sure I’ve covered fellow tribesmen and women in my quest to discover the hidden reason why cannabis is so beguiling. My own history goes back to around twelve years of age. Many of my peers the Gill School in Bernardsville, New Jersey smoked quantities of (for the time) high quality cannabis. This was in the early 1970’s. I remember the woodsy, skunky-fuel tinged, dense smoke that clung to our clothes, the lethargic, dreamy words of revolutionary poetry and the iChing. This early path into the forest of the mystical herb, cannabis would influence future endeavors. Wrapping up the memory driven package in string was the good old Grateful Dead, played on and on, in languid endless tape loops from a portable Nagra reel to reel. Yes, growing up in leafy New Jersey and smoking high quality cannabis certainly made for vivid memories.
This was the pitch, from all the way up north, in Canada!
Please allow me to introduce myself on behalf of the PR team with BLLRDR. I’m a fan of your work with Forbes, and I thought it best to reach out directly.
Ever since states began legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, the cannabis industry has formalized and sophisticated what once was a cottage industry of product innovation and adventurous designs. We’ve advanced from fragile, mundane bongs and plastic bags to dual-action, customizable vapes with trendy, child-resistant packaging. Successful design melds both creativity and functionality for an eye-catching product that can efficiently and accurately deliver the user’s desired outcome while keeping the product fresh for weeks, if not months.
JOEL SILVERMAN SKYCHIEF MEDIA
I’m always interested in authentic personal stories from entrepreneurs. You know what an entrepreneur is? It’s that person who is not content with working for someone else, the risk-taker, the passionate thinker and doer. The person who works for themselves because they have too many ideas for the corporate world.
LAUREN MARTIN
Michael Vaysman is the VP of Operations for the Black owned Gas House cannabis company. Gas House is the first legal Black owned cannabis brand in California. I first noticed Michael because of the Russian lettering on his Instagram page. Having traveled and worked in Russia, I knew that I had to contact him. As in immediately! And so I did and a friendship ensued with these five questions as a guide to Gas House. Cheers! WB