Financial experts at the CNvest conference held on April 9 in San Jose California gave cannabis entrepreneurs solid advice on Monday. Ben Larson of Backplane Capital said, “There’s a lot of excitement around cannabis but that doesn’t give you an excuse to build a shitty product. Investors want to see companies that are built on actual business models.”
Larson is a serial entrepreneur in the San Francisco area and is a General Partner at Backplane Capital, an early stage venture fund that invests in the cannabis industry. He is also a Co-founder of Gateway, a cannabis accelerator.
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