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INTERVIEW: As Cannabis Companies Struggle, $MOTA.ca Delivers $29M Revenue, $3.6M EBITDA – And That’s Just The Start $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $OGI.ca $FAF.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:03 PM on Monday, February 24th, 2020

In 1948, Winston Churchill said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it”.  Unfortunately, many Cannabis companies aren’t historians and are repeating the dot-com to dot-bomb cycle of raising tons of money but no clue how to build a real business with it.

You know what else we learned from that cycle?  Web 2.0 was the birth of companies with real business plans, products, customers and revenues.  They went on to dominate the next 20 years.

Enter MOTA Ventures (MOTA:CSE), who has become a leader in online CBD sales into the North American market, thanks to an e-commerce “engine” built by CEO Ryan Hoggan and his team over the past few years at Unified Funding.  That engine is so powerful that is has racked up over $200 MILLION in sales from over 1 million paying customers over a number of products, including CBD sales of $25 MILLION by “First Class CBD”, which was acquired by MOTA for $32 MILLION.

As the new CEO of MOTA, Ryan is bringing that ecommerce engine into the Company to further drive CBD sales into the US market, as well as, Europe.  As an online company ourselves, we can pretty easily spot companies that are just trying to piggy back “e-commerce”.  Ryan is the real deal.  As you will hear in this interview, he has already achieved monster e-commerce success with the likes of Boeing, Daimler and the Lakers basketball team on over 100 health and wellness products.

The best part for MOTA shareholders?  Ryan is highly motivated to continue with his successful ways because Unified Funding can earn an additional $15 MILLION if First Class CBD achieves sales of $62 MILLION.  In my experience, companies don’t put bonuses into contracts unless they both believe there is a reasonable belief they can be achieved. Will he hit $62M?  Or fall short at the other 2 milestones of $52M and $42M?

Watch this interview and you be the judge.  Either way, MOTA shareholders should get their popcorn ready because Ryan has already proven he’s leading MOTA into the Cannabis 2.0 phase.  Success is already here, now its just a question of how high MOTA will fly.

Watch this interview and share it with every investor you know!

BEYOND THE DECK: $HPQ.ca Silicon Shares Its PowerPoint Presentation With Investors $FSLR $SPWR $CSIQ $PYR.ca $XMG.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:21 AM on Thursday, February 20th, 2020

INTERVIEW: Empower $CBDT.ca Signs Exclusive Content Deal To Further Convert Its’ Database Of 165,000 Patients $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $OGI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:57 PM on Thursday, February 13th, 2020

With 165,000 patients, Empower Clinics (CBDT:CSE) (EPWCF:OTCQB) has a database that almost every medical cannabis and CBD company would kill for.  Add in the fact patient visits increased 351% in Q4 and it becomes the kind of company small cap investors have been dying to find as they watch pretender companies melt away.

But it doesn’t end there.

CBD extraction has been a key element of the company’s vertical integration. Producing its’ own hemp-derived CBD products for its own massive patient list just makes sense. However, thanks to an LOI (moving towards definitive agreement) to JV with extraction experts Heritage Cannabis, the Company’s 5,000 sq ft facility in Oregon is also planning to serve big brand 3rd party partners in the USA .  Empower brings the infrastructure, Heritage brings the expertise and balance sheet.  The result is a match made in shareholder heaven with initial annual capacity of 6,000 Kg at ~ $US 5,000 per Kg, which adds up to $US 30,000,000 in potential revenue.

But It Doesn’t End There

The Company’s CEO, Steven McAuley is Six Sigma certified under the quality initiative of legendary GE chairman Jack Welch. We’ve never seen a Six Sigma certified CEO in the Canadian small cap markets. Never …. which also explains how McAuley has brought Empower so far in just 11 months.

If anyone understands digital, it’s McAuley. So it should come as no surprise the Company just signed an exclusive multi-year, multi-national licensing deal with EuroLife to license its “Cannvas.me” cloud based online education platform for the US and Mexico.  Amongst other things, Empower plans to integrate the education platform into its clinics across the United States to help further convert their 165,000 patient database to CBD and medical cannabis through proper education.  

The site also contains premium content for physicians who need to educate themselves and comes with millions of page views already, as well as, 15,000 opted in subscribers, which explains the $460,000 in licensing over 3 years – but $210,000 of that is Empower stock priced at $0.10 (125% above current market prices, which gives you an idea of the confidence EuroLife principals have in the future of Empower.

P.S.  The interview takes place from the floor of the Arizona Cannabis Expo, where Empower has multiple booths and an actual pop-up clinic to acquire new customers in real-time.  That’s what happens when you have a company run by a Six Sigma Certified CEO.

Grab your favourite beverage and settle in to watch what may be your next great small cap investment.

INTERVIEW: $HPQ.ca Game Changing Silicon Process For #Lithium-Ion #Battery Market Is Just Months Away $FSLR $SPWR $CSIQ $PYR.ca $XMG.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:59 PM on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020

When a globally renowned technology partner – who supplies plasma torch technology to US Aircraft Carriers – says the following about your company, you are forced to stand up and take notice:

“We never thought, when we first embarked on this project, that we would be developing game-changing technology sought after by the Lithium-ion battery market.”

– Peter Pascali, President and CEO of PyroGenesis Canada Inc. 

There is no shortage of small cap companies claiming they want to supply materials to the Lithium-Ion battery market …. but only one of them is pursuing the material that can increase capacity by as much as 10X ….. Silicon. 

HPQ Silicon (HPQ:TSXV) isn’t just pursuing Silicon, they are on the verge of providing the market with multiple high-value silicon products sought after by Corporations building the next generation of Lithium-ion batteries, including one undisclosed company that is already under NDA with HPQ Silicon.

One of the best parts?  HPQ Silicon doesn’t have to worry about capital expenditure barriers that come with mining battery metals …. because Silicon is manufactured and HPQ has a patent pending process to manufacture Silicon at some of the lowest prices in the world.  A process that is fully funded all the way through to their pilot plant launching this year. 

If you believe in a future driven by electric vehicles and renewable energy, grab your favourite beverage and watch this video interview with CEO Bernard Tourillon.

INTERVIEW: KABN Systems North America – A Fintech Platform Turning The Problem Of Online Privacy Into A Profit …. For You.

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:02 AM on Thursday, February 6th, 2020

For some reason, we all take online privacy and identity for granted.  In the real world, we have someone verify who we are at the airport, banks and even bars by presenting ourselves in person, along with documentation (passport, drivers license, etc.)

But online we just punch in our credit card + CVV number (that one on the back) to access or buy just about anything.  The problem, as we’ve long known, is the recipient of your info has no idea if its really you, or the waiter you gave your credit card to last night at dinner.

For decades, we’ve accepted it as a cost of the convenience of credit cards, which is built into the ridiculously high % rates charged by credit card companies.

That’s all about to change.  People and governments have figured out over the past couple of years (see FACEBOOK) that too many companies know too much about us and use it to fill their pockets with insane amounts of money …. while sharing nothing with us.

Legislation has already been enacted and more is coming that will force EVERY company to re-think their business models.  The free ride is over for them and just beginning for us.

Enter KABN.  Watch this from your device, or listen to it in your car, bus or dentist’s waiting room.  KABN is private but has already announced a proposed RTO.  

We’re banging the table on how things are going to change beyond recognition this decade.  KABN is one of the companies making it possible.

WATCH.

INTERVIEW: $HPQ.ca Porous Silicon Attracts Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturer $FSLR $SPWR $CSIQ $PYR.ca $XMG.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:00 PM on Thursday, January 30th, 2020

INTERVIEW: After Building 165,000 Patients, Empower $CBDT.ca Clinics Sells 1st #CBD Clinic Franchise $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $OGI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 8:47 AM on Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

INTERVIEW: Lomiko’s $LMR.ca High Grade Graphite Is Now Strategic Under US Plan To Bypass China $CJC.ca $SRG.ca $NGC.ca $LLG.ca $GPH.ca $NOU.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 7:00 PM on Sunday, January 26th, 2020

INTERVIEW: $HPQ.ca Moves One Nano Step Closer To #Silicon For #Li-Ion #Batteries $FSLR $SPWR $CSIQ $PYR.ca $XMG.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 8:47 AM on Thursday, January 16th, 2020

VIDEO: Lomiko Metals $LMR.ca Is Well Positioned To Supply #Graphite to North American Giga Factories $CJC.ca $SRG.ca $NGC.ca $LLG.ca $GPH.ca $NOU.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:31 AM on Thursday, December 19th, 2019

As 2019 comes to a close, sit back and watch CEO Paul Gill provide a compelling year-end recap. With a high grade graphite resource already in place, growing and situated in North America, Lomiko Metals (LMR:TSXV) believes it is on the verge of becoming a supplier to multiple gigafactories being built in North America to support the electric vehicle boom.