Young people have certain expectations of their employers. Why (and how) you should meet them

eneration Y is undeniably making its mark in the Canadian workforce. As a vast number of tech-happy, smartphone-wielding millennials enter the job market every day, they are quickly superseding baby boomers as the largest group in the country’s offices.

By 2030, millennials are expected to comprise almost 75% of the workforce, making it increasingly important for small businesses to effectively communicate with and understand this burgeoning pool of workers.

Here are four ways that small businesses can attract top millennial talent.

MOVING TO MOBILE

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- As Green Technology Solutions, Inc. GTSO, +5.50% readies new products and services for entry into Oregon’s adult-use cannabis market, experts now say that the state’s cannabis industry could be worth nearly $500 million by 2020.

€œWhen we begin to build a business of our own in any market, we always go back to our counterparties and say this is how we do it,” said Vita. But he said he also asks the institutions three questions: What can his company do better? How can his company do it better? And what are the concerns the institution has about the expansion? As part of the New York state license awarded Friday, the company plans to open a medical marijuana farm in Melrose, N.Y. as well as three other dispensaries around the state.

Four business owners missed the July 31 review deadline and now the county will give four new people a shot

Dave DeZutter from the firm Eide Bailly pulls a ticket for the lottery to see which applicant could apply for a license to open a marijuana dispensary on Jan. 27, 2015 at Adams County Government Center in in Brighton. (Brent Lewis, The Denver Post file )

Federal Reserve has officially rejected a financial institution’s request to serve the medical marijuana industry’s banking needs in Colorado.

The request, that was filed in November by the Fourth Center Credit Union (FCCU), was seeking to create a “master account” that would act as an interactive platform between the state-licensed marijuana businesses and banking institutions. It had received the governor’s backing when it decided to bring expert money laundering officials to build the policies. Having received the state license, the FCCU was only waiting for the Fed’s approval to begin operations in Colorado.

For the week ended Friday, July 31st, the spot price index for a pound of cannabis rose from $1,736 in the prior week to $1,791, a jump of slightly more than 3%. The futures price for December 2015 remained unchanged at $1,350.

About two-thirds of the past week’s transactions fell in a range of $1,550 to $2,032 per pound and transaction prices ranged from a low of $1,500 in California and Oregon to a high of $2,500 in Michigan and Alaska according to the analysts at Cannabis Benchmarks. The volume-weighted average price in Colorado rose by about 6% from $1,667 on July 24th to $1,770 a pound last week.

The state Department of Health issued scores that ranged from 97 to 45 for the 43 medical-marijuana applicants that sought one of five licenses to grow and dispense the drug.

The highest on a scale of 1 to 100 was PharmaCann LLC, which would be based in Orange County for growing and have dispensaries in Erie, Onondaga, Albany and Bronx counties.

All five winners had scores that exceeded 90, while several others narrowly missed.

Ross John Enterprises, which proposed a facility in western New York, received the lowest score of 43.

The health department said it weighed a number of criteria in making the selections.

A Colorado financial institution is suing the federal government to be allowed to serve the state’s growing marijuana industry, according to a report in The New York Times.

The Federal Reserve earlier this month rejected the application from The Fourth Corner Credit Union in Denver, because it intends to provide banking services to state-licensed marijuana businesses.

The federal government still prohibits the use of marijuana, even though many states have taken steps to legalize recreational and medical marijuana. 

In response, the Obama administration has loosened enforcement against many marijuana businesses that operate outside of federal law, but it has yet to lift a ban on banks dealing with these companies.

Raising capital isn’t the easiest thing to do.

You could be starting a business or have an already established business – an infusion of capital is always a great thing. But while you are introducing new funds to your business, it is important is to decide how to raise capital. There are a multitude of factors that determine how to raise capital for your business based on what kind of an enterprise you have, the stage your business is in, how you want your operations to grow, how much it would cost to get the money etc.

Many companies today rely on content marketing and native advertising to gain visibility for their brand — after all, 70% of people say they’d rather learn about products through content rather than through traditional advertising. But is either content marketing or native advertising a surefire way to boost brand awareness? And which one offers more bang for the buck?