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- Cannabis Business Basics: Finding Your Audience And Manufacturers
Are you just starting out in the cannabis business? In this episode, host, Anthony Frischknecht, talks about some of the essential facets of selling cannabis that new business owners need to know. He lays down the importance of understanding the people, the extraction companies, and the manufacturers you trust to grow your cannabis. Hear Tony’s discussion on knowing how to source out your produce, along with his experiences and learnings from growing to selling cannabis.
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16 min - The Entrepreneurship Mindset: Connecting The Positives And The Negatives With Garyn Angel
Being an entrepreneur comes with big challenges. You are fully responsible of turning those challenges into opportunities to achieve your goals. Award-winning inventor and philanthropist Garyn Angel has faced more than his share of challenges and made it back up to create the best services in his business. In this episode, Garyn talks about the entrepreneurship mindset and how he managed to connect the positives and the negatives in the cannabis industry to create his product and help many people. He also reveals his strategies on pivoting and making a business grow.
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29 min - Cannabis Or Bust
In this episode, host Anthony Frischknecht, the author of From Black Market To The Man, gives us a quick rundown into starting a cannabis business. Starting this business as a challenge to himself, Tony was eventually able to grow it and is now running two dispensaries with an annual revenue of $6.5M in sales. Listen to this podcast as Tony shares what to expect and what to do when starting your own medical marijuana business.
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14 min - Grow With Jane: Your Right Hand In Growing Cannabis With Nicolas Botti
Are you planning to grow and produce your own cannabis supply or venture in this growing industry? If your answer is yes, Nicolas Botti gives you the right guidance for starting your own plantation. Today, Anthony Frischknecht interviews Nicolas as he shares his story on how he started Grow With Jane. He talks about his hopes about the future of cannabis being welcomed by the law in Argentina. Working with growers, he discusses the top three problems that they have and gives some tips for anyone wanting to grow their own products at home.
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26 min - Regulations In The Cannabis Business
Choosing a place to put up your cannabis business is not as simple as it seems. In this episode, Anthony Frischknecht provides a guide on knowing and understanding the location regulations. He shares what he does when looking into a place for your business, checking not only the locality but the states around as well. Letting us in on the possible worst-case scenarios, Anthony shows the importance of finding the right attorneys as well as keeping yourself in the know of these regulations. After all, regulations are part of the business. You either grow and adapt or fall out.
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18 min - Starting A Business: Financial Startup Capital
One of the biggest hurdles among entrepreneurs in starting a business is finding the financial startup capital. In this episode, host, Anthony Frischknecht, talks about this hurdle and gives understanding about the finances needed to build your business. While sharing his own experience, he taps into the overhead expenses entrepreneurs also need to consider along with their own personal finances that might be affected in the process. What is more, Anthony then gives some tips on how to look for the startup capital you need.
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17 min - What You Need To Know About Cannabis Laws And Regulations With Amanda Ostrowitz
Many cities across America have been welcoming cannabis into their legal doorsteps. However, despite such welcome, there are still complexities you need to understand regarding the rules and regulations surrounding its use. In this episode, Anthony Frischknecht interviews Amanda Ostrowitz, who founded RegsTechnology and its current product, CannaRegs, as a tool to aid attorneys, business people, and governments with localized tracking of regulatory issues. As interesting as how a former Federal Reserve bank examiner got into the cannabis industry, Amanda points out the changes in regulations regarding cannabis use. She talks about its importance to business owners and to any cannabis user in Denver and other areas. Sharing some sad stories of establishments being fined for illegal cannabis, Amanda also touches on the California market and their enforcement, taxes, and policies in using the plant.
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38 min - Tax Challenges In The Cannabis Industry
As with any business, there are a lot of stress and challenges with taxes in the cannabis industry. The good news is there are also solutions. In this episode, Anthony Frischknecht shares how you can deal with your taxes in your cannabis business. Narrating the times when he had his back against the wall, Tony shares how he went about getting help to alleviate the stress in handling taxes.
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20 min - Where Best To Put Your Money To Invest
Investors continuously have trouble finding the best opportunities for their investment. Do you put your money into stocks or direct company investments? In this episode, host, Anthony Frischknecht, shares his insights on how you can identify where to invest and how to keep an eye out for the risks involved. While at it, he explains the importance of doing background checks on the people you invest your time and money to. Don’t miss out on this great episode where Anthony gives you advice with an entrepreneurial mindset.
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22 min - Cannabis Business Owner And Stereotypes
There is a lot of progress in the cannabis industry, and more and more people are starting to respect and change the image of a typical cannabis patient and business owner. In this episode, Anthony Frischknecht talks about this change. The future of the cannabis industry is bright, and now is the best time to get into the business. Listen to this podcast episode to discover Tony’s insights into the present and future state of the cannabis industry.
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About Plant Problems
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If you’re thinking of investing, working, or starting a business in the cannabis industry, then you need to listen to Plant Problems, a podcast that takes a different approach to cannabis than what…
you’re seeing and hearing from the mainstream media. Hosted by Tony Frischknecht, the podcast provides high level information to help you understand the business more and make your decision on the direction you want to take. Tony has been successful in the cannabis industry for over fifteen years, and he’s going to take you along on a ride that will help widen your horizon and your industry knowledge about this amazing plant. The cannabis industry is still very new. Therefore, there are a lot unknowns. These unknowns are rather scary, but we will take you on a journey to help uncover the unknown. In Plant Problems, he’s going to be breaking down and tearing apart the myths of the cannabis industry along with shedding some light on the opportunities in the industry. Born and raised in Colorado, Tony always enjoyed the challenge of starting and building a business. At the young age of 25, he became an entrepreneur with two small construction companies. In 2005, he got introduced to the medical marijuana industry in Fort Collins, Colorado, and started a small MJ caregiving business called Highway to Healing. By the time he was 35, he had two dispensaries with an annual revenue of $6.5 million in sales, including two indoor grow facilities in Denver, Colorado – all four locations having 19 city and state licenses.In late 2012, Tony joined a group of industry leaders to build Organa Brands and started a successful cannabis brand called O.penVAPE. The maker of vaping products and edibles posted a top-line sales of $100 million in 2016 and prides itself of selling a product every nine seconds. It buys ten tons of marijuana a year and creates over 1 million grams of concentrated cannabis oil a year. Organa Brands is the only cannabis company with products on the market in ten states, including at 1,200 dispensaries. Subsequently, Tony has moved on to other ancillary businesses involving small scale extraction and commercial grow technologies. He is also the author of the newly released book, From Black Market to The Man, which outlines the 10 steps to becoming a multi-millionaire in the legal cannabis industry. With the fast evolution of the industry and the acceptance by those who used to be skeptics, the opportunities are vast. The Plant Problems podcast will make that much easier to navigate for you as Tony will be featuring and interviewing some people he knows personally and some who are working in the industry that are large influencers at this point in time to help facilitate and address a lot of your concerns and your needs. Be prepared to take in as much information as you can along with understanding as we all learn together from the experts and come out with an amount of insight that will be very valuable. Come along with Tony Frischknecht for the ride here on the Plant Problems podcast as he shows you more of the industry than anybody out there. Be in the know about how to invest, work, or start a business in the cannabis industry. We look forward to having future conversations with you as we go along this journey.