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Briody, Blaire, Brody, Liz, Field, Hayden, Larino, Jennifer, Moss, Rebecca, Rhodes, Margaret, Schomer, Stephanie, Stinson, Liz, Wilkinson, Amy |
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Entrepreneur; Oct/Nov2019, Vol. 47 Issue 7, p28-65, 26p, 21 Black and White Photographs |
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Growing a company means investing emotional energy, time, and sweat, and too often put the opportunities and needs of the company ahead of my health. "We're a source for companies that understand the value of one-of-a-kind design but may not have the scale or merchandising bandwidth to develop it internally", says founder and CEO Mariam Naficy. That led to a deal: In June, MJ Freeway merged with the public company MTech Acquisitions to become Akerna - making Billingsley the first female CEO to lead a cannabis company on the NASDAQ. Now with 100 employees, the firm is adding advertising as its clients have grown, coming full circle. She founded Glasswing Ventures in 2016 to nurture the next generation of transformative AI among other enterprise tech, and the Boston-based firm launched its first $112 million fund in 2018 and has since invested in 19 businesses. [Extracted from the article] |
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