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News Fix: Cannabis Companies Roll With the Changes

In the last issue of the First Stage Investor newsletter, Early Investing Co-Founder Andy Gordon made the argument that it was time for startups to shift their focus from baby boomers to millennials.
But the Fix is here to say not so fast, Andy. Startups addressing the changing needs of boomers are more interesting than ever (and we’re going to completely ignore the fact that Andy gave Generation X no love – harrumph!).
While the Fix was at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, we ran into Tombot. Tombot is a startup that creates robot dogs to help dementia patients. The dogs, which are …read more […]

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Darkness, Frustration, Fire: Five Tumultuous Days in California

(Bloomberg) — Californians have always lived in the shadow of calamity — from earthquakes, mudslides, flooding, fires and droughts.But the move this week from the state’s largest power company represented a new type of burden: a widespread, intentional hardship designed to prevent something much worse.Facing a powerful windstorm, PG&E Corp. cut off power to wide swaths of California rather than risk its lines sparking a deadly wildfire like the ones that ravaged the state over the past two years and sent the company into bankruptcy. The outage hit 34 of the state’s 58 counties — including the heavily populated San …read more […]