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Alex Blumenstein
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Jan 10, 2021

This is my plan to send a catalog full of cool internet brands to 50,000 US homes.

Around May of 2020 I was kicking around new business ideas. One of the few I landed on was All Sorts. The concept: A direct mail catalogue that is printed and mailed to tens of thousands of targeted households featuring cool, internet-first brands (DTC). As of this writing, the project…

Dtc

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This is my plan to send a catalog full of cool internet brands to 50,000 US homes.
This is my plan to send a catalog full of cool internet brands to 50,000 US homes.
Dtc

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Jul 28, 2020

Do you have a psychedelic strategy?

Psychedelics are quickly becoming the hottest new sector. Companies are springing up from nothing only to be traded on public markets overnight, while existing public companies are moving away from their previous iterations in cannabis, e-sports or blockchain and taking a dive into psychedelics. I’ve covered these movements extensively at…

Psychedelics

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Do you have a psychedelic strategy?
Do you have a psychedelic strategy?
Psychedelics

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Jun 1, 2020

The cannabis industry is built on black lives

As righteous protests, riots and looting (I use all three words to emphasize my support for each action) grip the United States and the world I want to acknowledge the debt the cannabis industry owes to black lives. I had been an active (now mostly passive) part of the Canadian…

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The cannabis industry is built on black lives
The cannabis industry is built on black lives

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May 27, 2020

Be Patient with Psychedelics

Psychedelics will take time, let’s learn that lesson from cannabis. I’ve been writing about psychedelics for about 10 months now, first as part of a Leaf Forward newsletter (now The Report on Sex) and The Report on Psychedelics. There’s not doubt that the mush rush or the shroom boom, whatever…

Psychedelics

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Be Patient with Psychedelics
Be Patient with Psychedelics
Psychedelics

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May 4, 2020

Should I Start an Oat Milk Business?

Long term trends combined with a recent restructuring of how we buy our household items may mean it’s now a really good time to start an oat milk business. Before I get into it, I’d like to make the disclaimer that I know very little about this topic. This idea…

Startup

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Should I Start an Oat Milk Business?
Should I Start an Oat Milk Business?
Startup

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Apr 29, 2020

It’s not only the right time, it’s absolutely necessary to fight the big tech monopolies in order to rebuild our economy.

In order to rebuild after Covid, there needs to be a shift in how our digital economy is structured. Good actors in tech need to provide alternatives to predatory and monopolistic practices of the bad actors, and the government needs to take this opening to legislatively reduce the power of…

Monopoly

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It’s not only the right time, it’s absolutely necessary to fight the big tech monopolies in order…
It’s not only the right time, it’s absolutely necessary to fight the big tech monopolies in order…
Monopoly

6 min read

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Alex Blumenstein

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