Cannabis consultant focusing on tech, operations, and advocacy. I launch, scale-up, and streamline retail dispensary and delivery operations. I've worked with over 200 retailers in the state, most grossing $3+ million in annual revenue. Former Head of Business Development and Operations at Meadow POS, Y-Combinator's first cannabis startup. Board member of Supernova Women, Former Lyft Regional Manager, speaker at LesbiansWhoTech, retired tennis pro and ramen connoisseur.

Founder: www.PALcapital.com www.PALgenesis.com www.StartupHub.nyc www.Condo.com www.NXTPLabs.com Advisor to more than 20 startups and Internet businesses. Mentor at www.TechStars.com and accelerators on 5 continents. I help founders and CEOs develop and execute strategies to build equity value and create liquidity. www.Angel.co/JamesHaft www.LinkedIn.com/in/jameshaft Founder PALcapital.com, PALgenesis. Com, Condo.com, Houses.com & Properties.com. Founder of Largest Accelerator in LatAm.

Talk to me about product management, fintech, and building and growing businesses

Cannabis Industry Insider. Business Coach. Social Impact Advisor. Accountability Partner. I spot the holes and create long term solutions for the success of you and your business.

2x founder, first company backed by Microsoft and Techstars, a VC professional, McKinsey consultant, engineer and Wharton MBA

Property Manager in PA for over 40 Properties since 2016. Love technology, have experience with Excel and Powerpoint, along with Quickbooks and Buildium. BA in Accounting.

Ask me anything about Africa Startups or Travel/Safari in Tanzania

Founding Partner @ OnFrontiers, an Expert network for emerging markets. Entrepreneur. Interested in innovation, international development, frontier markets

Experience in digital marketing, translation, and project management for language services. Foreign languages: Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese Certificates: Content Marketing (HubSpot), Email Marketing (HubSpot), Social Media Marketing (SO ME Academy) Education: BA in English (BYU), BA in Chinese (BYU), MBA (Hult International Business School)

Canadian starter-upper. Currently CEO Whistler Chamber of Commerce, previously VP Operations at Nurse Next Door (Canada's largest franchise home care company), Co-founder Blo Blow Dry Bar (blomedry.com), co-founder Extreme Kindness (extremekindness.com), best-selling author ("Cool to be Kind", "Call to Arms") #brand #marketing #operations #fastgrowth #profitabilty

An accomplished marketer and entrepreneur with strong business development credentials and marketing/e-commerce focus. Roy has covered all aspects of strategic planning, sales and marketing in multinational companies and startup environments. He possesses a unique Chinese and Asian business and culture expertise having worked in and with that region since 1996. Roy speaks, reads and writes Mandarin Chinese (traditional and simplified characters). He has demonstrated a high degree of initiative, independence and innovation in growing the Chinese arm of a multinational company and launching a China-focused boutique market entry consultancy and implementation agency. Among his projects, Roy launched a new travel agent platform for Expedia Affiliate Network and created a travel distribution platform for a leading North American travel group. Roy works with clients in the luxury travel and hospitality sectors to facilitate market entry through e-commerce solutions, online and offline brand promotion and social media. The services provided by ChinaContact and China Edge extend beyond China to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Japan. In the non-profit sector, he serves as Director of Eco and Heritage Tourism at Juccce.org. Specialties: e-commerce, public relations, distribution, travel and tourism, sales and marketing, China market expertise, directing events and exhibitions, new business development, China market access, sustainable development, high growth ventures, China mediation, China localization, tourism and hospitality investment, market research, public speaking, cross-cultural training

Head of Brand at LEVO // LEVOoil.com. Creative Director and Brand Strategist. Formerly Fab.com, WMG. Current focus: Cannabis Branding and Marketing

Founder, The Straits Network. Possess insights and understanding of business and culture in Southeast Asian markets. Strong network of contacts in the region. Passionate about startup and giving back.

Founder at Birguid. Market research. Strategy. M+E Consultancy | Founder and Partner at WeAreValora. Brand research, strategy, design and experience consultancy

Leads investment strategy & fundraising at Double River. Helped Launch Double River Ventures. Formerly at Citi (Equities & Securitized Products). MBA, BYU | BSc Economics, Utah.

Emerging markets expansion and growth marketing expert. Mentor at Orbit Startups and Stacks Accelerator. Chairman of the Czech Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the former COO of Whoolala.

Experienced top-manager in business development and partnerships in the field of innovation (http://linkedin.com/in/galynapaliychuk). Connecting Eastern European emerging market to the rest of the world. Consulting businesses and investors globally on cultural differences and nuances of working with Eastern European startups, and those who consider scouting on this market or planning to open an R&D in Ukraine. As a founder of Startup Communications School I also coach startups from Eastern Europe on investors communications (outreach & pitching) in the US, Canada and Europe.

Co-founder and CEO of HourlyNerd, a marketplace connecting elite MBA graduates and current students with businesses large and small. Former private equity investor at Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs; graduate of Harvard Business School and Princeton. Raised 3 rounds of capital from Mark Cuban, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital, GE Ventures and various corporate founder-CEOs.

Authored a book Fluent In Foreign Business and co-developed a range of proprietary products to help exporters, investors and franchisors to successfully expand abroad. Have done business in 34 countries, founded several international start ups. Managed public and private Small and Medium sized companies. Managed international crises and completed multiple successful cross-border assignments. Handled financing transactions between $1mil and $500 mil. Clients include Governments, UNDP, Fortune 500 cos and multiple SMEs.

Founder DealIndex; Multiple Entrepreneur; Decade of experience in Investment Banking from Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers; Private Equity & Startups. Passionate about Startups and Finance

UX, interaction + service designer focused on social impact + emerging markets. Clients include: UN Foundation, BRCK, Medic Mobile, PSI + the International Red Cross.

Stan has more than 30 years of experience in private and public investing, and more than 35 years of experience with emerging and established technology companies in the U.S., China and around the world. Stan spent 2010 as an Asia Programs Fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, where he researched and worked with fellows from China. His research focused on using technology cooperation to promote economic development, to develop trade policies, and to improve country relations. His research topic was "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy - with focus on U.S.-China Relations". Stan was recently a Managing Director at Zero Stage Capital where he worked between 1992 and 2004. At Zero Stage Capital, he led investments in software, communications, Internet and energy-related companies. He led investments in 19 companies that resulted in 8 successful initial public offerings and 3 strategic sales to corporate partners. Previously, he was with Advent International between 1990 and 1992, where he worked in the Far East Group and invested in opportunities that had direct relevance to Asia. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he held software engineering and product management positions at venture-backed Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) during its formative stage (#38), and sales and marketing positions at IBM Corporation (NYSE:IBM). Stan is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences related to the venture capital industry, entrepreneurship and economic development. These include: 2019 New England Venture Summit (Boston, MA) 2019 Horasis China Meeting (Las Vegas, NV) 2019 BCI Summit (New York, NY) 2019 Horasis Global Meeting (Cascais, Portugal) 2018 Horasis Asia Meeting (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) 2018 Horasis China Meeting (Kiev, Ukraine) 2018 Global Assets and Wealth (GAW) Forum (Singapore) 2018 AI, Robotics and Machine Learning Conference (Palo Alto, CA) 2018 CB Blockchain Conference (San Francisco, CA) 2017 Horasis China Meeting (Sheffield, UK) 2017 DM Alternatives Conference (Seoul, Korea) 2016 Horasis China Meeting (Interlaken, Switzerland) 2016 New England Institutional Investors Forum (Boston) 2015 New England Venture Summit (Boston, MA) 2015 Horasis China Meeting (Cascais, Portugal) 2015 Chief Strategy Officer Summit (Shanghai, China) 2014 New England Venture Summit (Boston, MA) 2014 New England Institutional Investors Forum (Boston) 2013 Babson Asia Entrepreneurship Forum (Wellesley, MA) 2007 - 2014 Global China Business Meeting (Europe) 2010 China Early Stage Investor Forum (Shanghai, China) 2007 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Forum (Shenzhen, China) 2000 Private Equity and Alternative Investments Conference (Abu Dhabi, UAE) 2000 Capital 2000 Summit (Montreal, Canada) 1999 International Seminar on Venture Capital (Beijing, China) - organized by CHENG Siwei MIT Sloan Venture Capital Conference MIT Enterprise Forum Satellite Broadcast Series Stan has been on the judging panel of numerous business plan contests, including the prestigious MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition (which he co-founded in 1989), the MIT-CHIEF (China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum) Business Plan Contest, and the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. Stan is an advisor to the Breakout Labs, a Project of the Thiel Foundation. Stan served on the Investment Committee of the University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. from 2000 to 2018. Stan earned a BS (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MS in Computer Science from UCLA, and an SM in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT Sloan School, he completed his Master's Thesis "Venture Capital in the Far East: A Comparative Study" in May 1990. Stan was born and raised in Hong Kong. Stan lived and worked in Beijing between 2015 and 2020.

Founder. MINTLY. HR CUBE. Indianapolis Based. Worked on 4 different startups as Side Projects in the past 10 years that never took well. Technologist. Runner. Book reader touching topics on Biography, Tech, Economics, Arts, Science and Personal Development. Regular Contributor to Huff Po, Entrepreneur.com, INC42, YFS,Thrive Global and Podcasts on Marketing, Startups.

10 years in Consulting + 17 years expertise in Alcatel, then Alcatel-Lucent Has been living across Europe, North America and Africa. And has been working across 40 countries worldwide. Expert and Consultant in Telecom Markets across Africa and the Middle-East, Business Models, Multinational Projects, New Value Chain Opportunities, Disruptive Telecom Applications and Business Cases, from Fiber Optic Trunks to Broadband Wireless Access, Trusted Speaker in Events Worldwide.

Founder @Early Stage VC; ex-Accel, ex-Unilazer_Ventures; Invested in 35+ seed through series B startups, some of which have grown to become large companies (1 Decacorn, 1 Unicorn, 5 250M+).