When I search my friend’s name all I see is news articles about his death. Instagram is full of love from friends and fam but I want to make sure the world knows what he accomplished professionally too. I know that was super important to him. I built out this page on the LTRMN site and this post is linking to it to tell Google it’s a good one. We miss you like crazy Dana Ryssdal.
I’m very proud of the team and my partners in the next chapter of LTRMN, it’ll be the best one.
In the last couple years I’ve come to appreciate the power of publishing my thoughts on the internet in the form of works, primarily on Twitter and a little on LinkedIn. Content, they call it.
It’s still a bit unnerving but getting more natural everyday.
TikTok, video, and moreso relentless publishing of short form video is a much more daunting task but after watching what can happen on TikTok by simply showing up and working at it: I’ve decided to give it a go.
I’ll be talking about products and brands every day, at least once a day, on TikTok. My wife refuses to follow me.
Follow yours truly: @Landforce_ on TikTok
Some kid has just @landforce smfh
All that ranting and raving on LinkedIn finally added up to something: A newsletter called Free Smoke. Aptly subheaded “cannabis and bullshit”, Free Smoke is a twice monthly rambling on a variety of not-boring topics centered around cannabis. Free Smoke is longform, ish, and you can subscribe here for past issues and to get new ones in your inbox.
I got a chance to jump on and talk shop w/ David over at The Knowledge. I really enjoyed the chat and regretted not having my big camera on for recording that day. Find it on all the normal platforms w/ the links below!
I’m excited to jump on a panel for Grizzle’s June 2022 CannabisCon online convention. I’ll be in the mix with Scott and Thomas of Grizzle along w/ Gord Nichol of 40 North Cannabis in Canada talking products, trends, and tech.
The event is Wednesday June 8th from 10am – 1pm PST. My panel is at 11:20 and will be streaming live on YouTube.
I’ll be in Austin for SXSW Tech for a presentation w/ Weedmaps CEO Chris Beals on cannabis and tech. Press release here.
March 15, 4pm local time
Technology: The Key to Growing the Cannabis Industry
Backlink flowwww: Colin Landforce SXSW
After 20 episodes of the podcast, we’re rebranding and switching it up completely.
Builders Build 🛠️,🛠️
A podcast about building businesses, products and interesting lives from Colin Landforce (@landforce), Oren Schauble (@orenmeetsworld) and James Camp (@jamesoncamp). Formerly known as Tab Talk.
Find it here on the hottest domain on the planet: builders.build
I logged into my Instagram for the first time in a couple weeks to find an explosion of comments. Unilad didn’t even tag me and my IG still blew up, I still have loads of DM requests to respond to. Ooooof.
View this post on Instagram
The thread I wrote about my journey over the last 5 years in cannabis got picked up by Indian journalist Bharat Sharma who did a feature in India Times.
Check our Javier’s 2021 Wrap Up on Forbes.com.
Jessican Stillman at Inc featured my thread about reading biographies instead of business and personal development books, and added a primer on each one.
I stopped reading business books a while ago, I’m reading history and biographies instead.
Here’s 43 biographies that’ll teach you way more than the concepts and strategies you’re reading about right now.
The 3rd one is probably my favorite.
THREAD:
— Colin Landforce 🔌 (@landforce) September 4, 2021
Jessica writes:
“The place to turn, according to one entrepreneur, is biographies. On Twitter recently, founder and CTO Colin Landforce confessed that he’s traded in general advice for deeper dives into the lives of past innovators. “I stopped reading business books a while ago. I’m reading history and biographies instead,” he tweeted.
Looking for titles to add to his to-read queue, Landforce asked his 20,000-plus followers to suggest great biographies and memoirs. More than 100 ideas poured in. Landforce helpfully sorted through the suggestions to weed out repetitions and self-promoters, coming up with a final tally of 43 recommendations. The full list is here or, to get you started, here are a handful of the most promising.”
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/business-books-biography-colin-landforce.html
I’ve been playing in web – eComm, content, and beyond – for years now, and I’m very savvy in the space. A while ago when I listed to my friend James on The Fort podcast talking about digital real estate, a switch flipped for me.
I had a chance to go through James’ Nano Flips course before he launched and actually used it to buy a site (that shall go unmentioned for now) this summer. It’s an A+ playbook and I got a change to give him a testimonial for it.
Digital Real Estate! Nano Flips! Let’s go!
I love Craig‘s Twitter username, gets me every time.
I jumped on his pod to talk weed and creating content. We had a great chat, felt like talking to an old friend and hope to do it sometime.
On Plant Prophets, Host Vern Davis talks with the most innovative and growth driven cannabis companies in the industry. Had a blast chatting w/ him tbh. Listen here.
Modern Professional had some questions, I had some answers. Read here:
How Unrivaled Brands’ Colin Landforce Leads the Cannabis Industry by Example
or on Medium
I’m doing more podcasts, and here I sat down w/ Kevin on his pod Cannabinoid Connect to talk about getting started in cannabis, regulatory checklists, and the state of cannabis CPGs.
Our transaction just closed, we are now a publicly traded cannabis company.
Got the Unrivaled ticker too! $UNRV
Here’s a little about us: pic.twitter.com/6qtmr9jNyE
— Colin Landforce (@landforce) July 8, 2021
I got a chance to jump on the Genuinely Interested podcast w/ @Roy_Bntz
We had a blast talking about: The origin of our brands, CPG brand strategy, Product development & State market dynamics.
