Startups

Benzinga recently shared the story of Andy Williams, co-star of MSNBC's “The Pot Barons of Colorado,” founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver, Medicine Man Technologies Inc (OTC: MDCL) and several other companies. During a conversation after Williams’ keynote at Green Flower...

Last week, a deal was confirmed between the ride-hailing service Lyft and autonomous car company Waymo (parent company, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)). While the companies are keeping hush on details, each offered statements confirming the deal. “We’re looking forward to...

Bonita "Bo" Money was relatively well known as an actress and casting director. However, being a woman with an "ethnic" look, her career was filled with hurdles and challenges, even after her migration into the cannabis industry, which is usually received as a "progressive...

The cannabis industry is creating rapid wealth among investors. However, few entrepreneurs have been as successful as Andy Williams, co-star of MSNBC's “The Pot Barons of Colorado” and founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver, Medicine Man Technologies Inc (OTC: MDCL) and several...

Is there a relationship between innovation and chances of long-term prosperity? Intuition would lead one to think there has to be. But, does data support this assumption? The results are more complicated than counterintuitive. By using three separate reports from WalletHub* and comparing the...

The machines moved in so quickly, people were caught off guard. Once they saw the scope of the threat, they rioted and smashed the devices in nightly raids. But the machines proved too powerful, and a turbulent transition to a new world soon ensued. This was Britain in the early 19th century when...

Advancements in technology are turbocharging development in the virtual reality space — and one young company is taking advantage of a market that didn’t previously exist. Salem, Utah-based Private Label VR, which started business in January, offers software that allows the operators of...

A few years ago, Dr. Bryan Doner and Melonie Kotchey decided to invest in the cannabis industry and started a process of vetting diverse companies in an effort to understand the space. After roughly 12 months of research, they came up with the idea to start their own business, Compassionate...

This article was originally featured on Hackernoon. The timing of your fundraising can have a big impact on the outcome. Here’s how you know if it’s the right time to raise your seed round. Revenue Growth Great Situation — You’ve been growing at 20%/month on revenue (or a...

Build a business model based on marginalized Medicare recipients living in poor, urban neighborhoods where doctors rarely care or dare to set up shop. Focus on quality health care with a holistic view of a patient’s needs, from house calls to behavioral counseling to transportation to that...

Cason Thorsby is taking the sugar shame out of pop. The drinks that bear his name, Cason Superinfused Beverages, were designed by the 31-year-old Detroiter to have the sweetness, bubbles and fizz of pop, but without any sugar, calories or artificial additives. The beverage line, sweetened with...

If you’ve been a trader for any amount of time, you’ve probably scrounged around the SEC's 13F filings page for the latest action from the big hedge funds. While those quarterly documents can give you insight into what equity positions firms like Berkshire Hathaway or Fisher...

Adam Lux took a step back Friday during his business pitch and — WHACK! — chopped a piece of concrete in half with his bare hand. The woman he was pitching, Jackie Kreterfield, looked nervous for a moment, but Lux’s karate chop isn’t that unusual of a sight in her job....

Michael Marrale’s lightbulb moment came around his 10th year as an ace technology analyst at RBC Capital Markets. The field was crowded with analysts doing essentially the same thing. “Most of the information was anecdotal and not very quantitative or data driven,” said Marrale,...

A drone followed Maurice Cox on a recent weekday as he pedaled from his home in Detroit’s Lafayette Park neighborhood to his job downtown. The resulting video, which shows Cox biking city streets and the Dequindre Cut Greenway, could be from a lifestyle ad. But what it shows is the daily...