CANNAINVESTOR Magazine Privately Held Companies January 2018 | Page 166

By Laura Williams

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on FEE.org

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Crowdfunding in the Marijuana Sector

Introduction:

What is crowdfunding and how does it fit in within the marijuana industry? Those are some excellent questions and today we are going to take a high level dive into crowdfunding (here on in referred to a CF interchangeably). It is likely that you have caught wind or heard of people talking about CF as of recently, but are still not entirely sure what exactly this is and how it could fit into your investment portfolio. Let’s first start by simplifying exactly what CF is so that we are on the same page. Investopedia refers to crowdfunding as:

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