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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. His concept captured the imagination of enough people that North Aware’s Kickstarter campaign raised an astonishing $2.6

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

To solve this problem, we are working on new email marketing campaigns, Facebook retargeting, paid ads and other methods. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. I am based in Bali about half of the year as I am building my first hostel out here.