by Patrick T | Jan 6, 2017 | News
A candy-colored pack of marijuana joints from Lola Lola, with its quirky characters splashed across the box, looks more like a prop from a Katy Perry music video than drug paraphernalia. Its quirky, good-vibes feeling is exactly what creator Michael Garganese, Jr., is...
by Patrick T | Jan 2, 2017 | Entrepreneur
Setting up a corporate structure and choosing a tax entity status can be a unique challenge for cannabis sellers and growers. These businesses face a different set of choices than traditional small business owners. Due to certain legal and financial concerns, owners...
by Patrick T | Dec 28, 2016 | Entrepreneur
1. The Lean Startup I built this blog with this idea. I don’t want the business I want to become, but I can’t just wait. I have to just start building. It wasn’t half way into my blog that I came across The Lean Startup and it seemed liked the...
by Patrick T | Dec 19, 2016 | News-Entrepreneur
Outside a Sonoma County Fairgrounds exhibition hall last weekend, hordes of happy pot lovers walked around the Emerald Cup harvest festival, already stoned or about to be. Inside the hall, a panel of entirely sober government officials discussed the ramifications of...
by Patrick T | Dec 10, 2016 | Culture
It was hard for Tiffany Wu to tell her conservative, first-generation Chinese American parents she was quitting her high-paying job at a Silicon Valley law firm. It was even harder for the Harvard Law School grad to tell them that she was quitting so she could advise...