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Ali Zahid is the COO of Vanhawks, makers of the Valour, the bike of the future. Safer. Smarter. Sexier. He shares his insights on how to build a complete startup and pursuing your vision.
Ali was a biomedical engineering student at Queen's University before he dropped out to join his co-founders at FounderFuel in Montreal. They launched their Kickstarter campaign 12 days before demo day, with the goal of raising $100,000. The target was quickly met (<30 hours) and end up raising 8x the initial goal, becoming the largest Kickstarter in Canada.
