The key to a successful startup is a driven, hardworking team. Big companies and established corporations lure their employees by touting a slew of benefits, high salaries, company prestige, and free bagels.

As a young company, you still need to recruit the best and brightest team to drive your upward trajectory, but you may not be able to offer all the perks that come with a big company. So how do you get people interested in working for your startup?

Aside from word of mouth and face-to-face networking, attracting the right candidates is all about standing out online. Hundreds of companies are out there looking for top talent to join their teams. If your job posting and website aren’t up to snuff, potential employees will glide right past your listing.

The sharing economy has shifted spending behaviours from ownership to experiences and made trust even more important, according to new reports

New, exciting experiences are trumping ownership as the new status symbol, according to a recent study from Capital One. Last year, the credit card company hosted its inaugural C1NDX, a roundtable with journalists, academics and industry experts that focused on how disruptive technology is impacting consumer spending habits. Capital One also partnered with Vision Critical on a survey of 1,500 Canadians.

Drew Riegel makes a six-figure salary in the marijuana business without touching the plant, holding any physical inventory, or hiring any employees. Instead, he closely watches the development of the emerging industry, identifies the web domain names the players there might want, and buys them. Keeping about 1000 names at a time, he sells them to companies or individuals, through his web site MarijuanaNames.org. He keeps some names for himself and uses them to create web sites offering marijuana-related content that link to other web sites where customers can buy related products. Riegel receives a percentage of those sales revenues, a common internet practice called affiliate sales.

SAN JOSE -- Just as "America's largest medical marijuana festival" was about to light up the convention center this weekend, it went up in smoke -- and moved to Daly City's Cow Palace.

San Jose officials revoked HempCon's convention center contract last week, saying the marijuana trade show runs afoul of local law.

"Taken together, local law says no sales, transfer, or use is legal at the convention center," explained city spokesman David Vossbrink.

Talk about a bummer. A HempCon organizer who goes only by Contessa T., or "Tess," confirmed in an email that "due to San Jose ordinances we were forced to move the show at the last minute to San Francisco. There will be no event in San Jose."

Raid comes on the heels of owners' interview with VICE.

Toronto police raided a marijuana lounge on the Danforth Thursday, a little more than a week after its owners were featured in a media interview that touted their business as “totally illegal.”

Chris and Erin Goodwin, operators of the Good Weeds Lounge, have been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, relating to marijuana and cannabis resin, plus possession of the proceeds of crime. Erin Goodwin was also charged with simple possession.

The investigation was sparked by “community complaints,” Const. Caroline de Kloet told Metro.

Young people have been warned – do not use cannabis oil in e-cigarettes.

An 18-year-old woman is on the road to recovery after police suspect she tried to consume the substance using a vaporiser.

She was left in a 'serious condition' and was rushed to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Friday.

Police believe the teenager purchased cannabidiol online, a cannabis derivative.

Arif Ali, who works at Vape King, which specialises in e-cigarettes in the market in Easthate Shopping Centre, said: "Many people think that these liquids are on the same level as vape liquids but they are totally different.

"There needs to be more awareness of the differences between the liquids.

Marijuana growers in the Northwest are going to use a lot of electricity in the next 20 years, enough to power up to 200,000 homes, according to a recent forecast.

That’s because a lighting module to grow four marijuana plants takes as much energy as 29 refrigerators.

After some hesitation, Washington utilities are now rewarding marijuana growers for reducing their energy use. 

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Ethan Nadelmann, in addition to his colleagues at the Drug Policy Alliance, has played a critical function in most of the major drug policy reform tally effort projects in the United States, and he will be hosting The Terrific Marijuana Debate sponsored by ProCon.org in San Francisco this March at the California Marijuana Business Expo, produced by MJIC Media and sponsored by The Marijuana Investor Top and CannaFundr.

There is an ugly trend that exists in society today, and it is affecting all of us. Revenue from natural resources, industry, agriculture, and more, is increasingly being leveraged away from the average Canadian and into the bank accounts of the wealthiest among us.

Our legislators must now decide if they will take the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry in the same direction, or if they will allow entrepreneurship and a world-renowned industry to continue growing and maturing, as it has been doing for decades.

Under Canada’s Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations—created by the former Conservative government—15 of 27 producer licences (56 percent) have been awarded to business based in Ontario. This is a radical reshaping of the industry.

The owners of Goodweeds Lounge, a newly opened recreational pot bar in Toronto's east end, have been charged with multiple trafficking and possession-related offences following a police raid that took place Thursday evening.

Chris and Erin Goodwin opened up the vapour lounge a few weeks ago where customers can purchase dabs and bong hits on site as long as they're aged 18 and older. No medical prescription is necessary.

But Toronto police confirmed they executed a search warrant at the venue, located at 940 Danforth Avenue, under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act on Thursday evening.