{"id":19533,"date":"2017-09-20T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/how-to-sell-your-marijuana-business-qa-with-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:36:58","slug":"how-to-sell-your-marijuana-business-qa-with-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/how-to-sell-your-marijuana-business-qa-with-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"How to sell your marijuana business: Q&amp;A with GRN Funds CEO Justin Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bart Schaneman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valuating a cannabis business requires coming up with creative comparisons to established industries, such as tulips and wine.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the space Justin Costello operates in. The\u00a0CEO of Seattle-based GRN Funds, he brings years of experience making deals in the investment banking sector and said he has completed 80-plus cannabis deals.<span id=\"more-75217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He currently is brokering a <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/washington-state-broker-aims-sell-bundle-12-marijuana-retailers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$60 million-$70 million sale<\/a>\u00a0in which he\u2019s packaging 12 marijuana companies in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Costello recently spoke with <em>Marijuana Business Daily<\/em> about how he valuates cannabis businesses, which companies are easier to sell and deal structures to avoid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/sell-marijuana-business-qa-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello\/\">How to sell your marijuana business: Q&amp;A with GRN Funds CEO Justin Costello<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/sell-marijuana-business-qa-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to sell your marijuana business: Q&amp;A with GRN Funds CEO Justin Costello<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart Schaneman Valuating a cannabis business requires coming up with creative comparisons to established industries, such as tulips and wine. That\u2019s the space Justin Costello operates in. The\u00a0CEO of Seattle-based GRN Funds, he brings years of experience making deals in the investment banking sector and said he has completed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/how-to-sell-your-marijuana-business-qa-with-grn-funds-ceo-justin-costello\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,18,1472,1673,19,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19534,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}