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Jane Technologies: Digitizing the Cannabis Retail Experience

November 11, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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One of the books that most influenced Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of cannabis e-commerce platform Jane Technologies, is “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek. In the book, Sinek splits the different games that humans play into two categories: finite, and infinite.…

Dutchie: A 3-Billion-Dollar Cannabis E-Comm Giant

November 10, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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Dutchie certainly has made headlines with its rapid growth over the last few years. An e-commerce platform focused on facilitating dispensary operations and transactions, Dutchie enables more than $14 billion in sales annually across 5,500 dispensaries in the U.S. and…

BLAZE: Cannabis Operators Building Software for Cannabis Operators

When Chris Violas, founder and CEO of cannabis seed-to-sale software company BLAZE, ran a cannabis delivery service under California’s Prop 215 system from 2011 to 2014, he saw firsthand the issues with which these businesses had to contend. Inventory management,…

springbig: From Yogurt and Pizza Digital Punch to Cannabis CRM Platform

November 3, 2022
Brian MacIver
Ancillary Businesses, Marketing, News & Insights, Science and Technology
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When cannabis customer relationship management (CRM) software company springbig went public this past June, CEO Jeffrey Harris noted in a press release how the move would help “accelerate our growth strategy as a newly public company.” Accelerating an already rapidly…

Simplifya: Tracking 18 Million Lines of Regulations, And Counting

October 26, 2022
Brian MacIver
Compliance and Regulations, Science and Technology
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18 million lines of cannabis regulations. That’s what Marion Mariathasan, CEO of cannabis compliance software provider Simplifya, estimates his company currently tracks across 28 state markets. Launched in 2016, Simplifya is one of the cannabis industry’s leading compliance software companies.…

Flowhub: A Streamlined Experience for Large (and Small) Retail Operations

October 23, 2022
Brian MacIver
Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology
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After discovering how CBD could help him get off of prescription SSRIs, Kyle Sherman, founder and CEO of cannabis POS software company Flowhub, moved with his family from California to Colorado in 2013. While California was still the medical cannabis…

CEO & Founder Gary Cohen Delivers Cova’s Point-of-(Compliant)-Sale Software Secret Sauce

October 19, 2022
Brian MacIver
Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Spotlight
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By Brian MacIver When Gary Cohen, founder and CEO of cannabis industry point-of-sale (POS) software company Cova, was working for another large POS company operating in the retail cellphone market, he never dreamed he would one day be making the…

US Cannabis Market Opportunities

Brands looking to capitalize on future market growth need to look at how consumers are behaving today. By Brian MacIver Needless to say, the American cannabis market is booming (although inflationary forces may have something to say about that as…