Start Your Own Cannabis Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to the Marijuana Industry

by Entrepreneur Media Inc., Javier Hasse, Jodie Emery (Foreword by)

Overview

Everything You Need to Start and Run a Successful Cannabis Business

From retailers to growers, producers, and suppliers, there's a seemingly never-ending list of startup opportunities in this emerging market. In Start Your Own Cannabis Business, cannabis, biotech, and entrepreneurship reporter Javier Hasse introduces forward-thinking entrepreneurs lie you to the industry and shares hard-earned tips and success stories from pioneers and visionaries in the marijuana industry.

Take a closer look at the world of weed and what it holds for you and your future as a cannabis entrepreneur. You'll learn how to:

• Put together a solid business plan with tips from cannabis lawyers
• Estimate startup costs with the help of cannabis-experienced CPAs
• Assemble a team of employees with insight from legal cannabis recruiting and dispensary training agencies
• Protect your assets in case something goes wrong with your business
• Familiarize yourself with the tax and legal regulations of the industry
• Understand what's legal and what's not in the U.S. in cannabis
• Grow your cannabis business into a multistate company

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613083918
Publisher:	Entrepreneur Press
Publication date:	04/20/2018
Series:	Startup
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
Sales rank:	853,235
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Javier Hasse is a writer and reporter with a focus on the cannabis and small-cap biotech industries and an advocate of marijuana legalization. He has had more than 4,5000 articles published on a variety of mass media outlets including Playboy, High Times, Leafly, Benzinga, The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, InsiderMonkey, CNN Money, Fortune Magazine, MSN, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Microsoft, FOX Business, Investing Channel, among many others. Prior to becoming a full-time reporter and writer, Javier served as CEO for a financial research and content creation company. Find samples of his work at: https://muckrack.com/javierhasse/portfolio
For more than 30 years, Entrepreneur Media, Inc. has set the course for success for millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners. We'll teach you the secrets of the winners and give you exactly what you need to lay the groundwork for success.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction To The Cannabis Industry
A Bit Of History
The Current Legal Landscape
THC And CBD
Understanding Cannabis Legalization
The Cannabis Market
Medical Marijuana
Industrial Hemp

Chapter 2: The First Major Decisions
Is this business the right one for you?
Will you want to touch the plant or not?
Picking A Sub-Sector
Realistic Possibilities
Story Time: Jane West

Chapter 3: The Initial Planning
Getting Started
The Business Plan
The Financial Plan
Story Time: Andy Williams

Chapter 4: The Financing Issue
The Banking Problem
Funding Alternatives
How To Attract Capital
The Fundraising Process

Chapter 5: The Licenses Issue
Procuring A License

Chapter 6: Setting Up Shop
The Team Buildup – Selecting and Training
Finishing The Design and Construction Of Your Physical Location
The Soft-Launch
The final audits

Chapter 7: Getting The Word Out: Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations

Chapter 8: Dealing With The IRS and Regulators

Chapter 9: Growing Your Business Into A Multi-Location or Multi-State Company
Chapter 10: Success Stories and The Path To Public Markets
Chapter 11: Conclusions

Interviews

Javier Hasse is a writer and reporter with a focus on the cannabis and small cap biotech industries and an advocate of marijuana legalization. He has had more than 4,5000 articles published on a variety of mass media outlets including Playboy, High Times, Leafly, Benzinga, The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, InsiderMonkey, CNN Money, Fortune Magazine, MSN, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Microsoft, FOX Business, Investing Channel, among many others. Prior to becoming a full-time reporter and writer, Javier served as CEO for a financial research and content creation company. Find samples of his work at: https://muckrack.com/javierhasse/portfolio

For more than 30 years, Entrepreneur Media, Inc. has set the course for success for millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners. We'll teach you the secrets of the winners and give you exactly what you need to lay the groundwork for success.