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The Apples of tomorrow in the cannabis industry are focused on their core product or service. This focus is one reason why only a handful of pot entrepreneurs stand out—such as Ata Gonzalez, CEO of GFarmaLabs and Trip Keber, CEO of Dixie Brands, who is known as the "Willy Wonka of Weed" because he creates pot-infused candy and sodas.
“Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Apple all differentiated themselves by making their leaders the face and voice of the company...

A Czech immigrant named Walter Lappert launched Lappert’s ice cream in 1983. Little did the hippie entrepreneur know that his dessert storefront would serve as a stepping stone for his grand son Isaac to launch a cannabis-infused ice cream brand called Isaac's Cannabis Creamery.
"It's super premium ice cream made with 16% buttermilk content, which is delicious fat," said the 24-year-old Lappert. “It’s not being whipped up in my sink without any bacteria...

Bethenny Frankel is reportedly joining the ranks of Bob Marley’s family with her intent to launch Skinnygirl Marijuana that suppresses rather than activates the appetite during use. Critics are already slamming the reality tv star for being greedy and a bad role model.
“It is an outrageous, immoral, greedy money-making scheme that Bethenny Frankel is perpetrating,” said Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist and author of the 2010 book Bad Girls. “She is simply and...

We know Tony Alfiere as uber cool Ripley's Formula (THC drink "eases the day") CEO but it's Tony's broad cannabis industry experience that underlies his new guidebook for marijuana entrepreneurs. The industry's inspiring growth rate is a magnet for would be pot moguls; Tony's Pot Inc. is their bible.
Tony Alfiere Ripley's Formula Potrepreneurship Interview IP Staff: Why did you write your book Pot Inc. and who is it for?
Tony Alfiere: I wrote Pot Inc. for both veteran cannabis...

According to the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the total value of the world’s marijuana market was more than $140 billion. In the United States alone the black market cannabis industry is valued at nearly $50 billion, according to research done by Dutchess Capital – the majority of which is provided by the Mexican drug cartels.
The legal cannabis industry, spread across the 23 states that have legalized it in some form, has a value just north of $2 billion currently...