Startup Saturday Mumbai February- Building the ‘A’ Team

With an aim to help early-stage startups grow, the February edition of Startup Saturday Mumbai will focus on building an ‘A’ team.

For most entrepreneurs, a major challenge is finding the right co-founder and the right founding team. This is extremely important in setting up the foundation for your startup and defining its organisational structure.

This session will help you identify the right characteristics that you should look for, when getting people onboard your venture. You will also understand how to develop the right culture within your organisation such that everyone is aligned towards the right vision.

Register on : bit.ly/ssmum_feb17

As per venue guidelines, men in shorts/3/4ths and women in short skirts (above knee length) will not be allowed entry.  

Agenda

  • 02:30 PM: Introductions

    03:15 PM: Topic: Hiring your first C-Suite Executive
    Speaker: Preetam Salian – Founder, HiringMonk

    04:00 PM: Lightning Pitch

    04:15 PM: Break

    04:30 PM: Topic: Building the Core Team.
    Speaker: Nitin Purswani – Founder, Zepo

    05:15 PM: Topic: Building the Team Culture.
    Speaker: Naiyya Saggi – CEO & Founder, Babychakra

    06:00 PM: Networking

    Nitin Purswani

    Nitin Purswani has an entrepreneurial experience of more than 6 years. He started his entrepreneurial journey by Avataar Tees. Avatar T-shirts was started by 2 friends just out of their college. He ran in for more than 2 years and then he started with Bujiness. Bijness.in was built to provide an alternate revenue stream to Bloggers. It helped bloggers setup their e-Commerce stores with complete support including dropshipping.

    Then he started with Zepo.in. Zepo helps small business sell online easily. Using Zepo, you can open your own online shop in 5 minutes

  • Naiyya Saggi

    Naiyya Saggi is the CEO & Founder, BabyChakra. BabyChakra is an award winning, venture funded online platform that is trusted by millions of young mothers in India on maternity & childcare. In a short span of time, it has grown rapidly to become the largest platform for parents online. Naiyya has been awarded as one of the leading young entrepreneurs in India by BusinessWorld, Economic Times, Google & Microsoft.

    Naiyya is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (MBA 2012) where she was a Fulbright and J.N.Tata scholar. Prior to Babychakra, Naiyya was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and at the Bridgespan group (Boston) where she worked extensively on her areas of passion – maternal, child health and education.

  • Preetam Salian

    Founder – HiringMonk

    Preetam has done his Masters in marketing from Wigan and Leigh, UK. He has worked with and raised 4 startups before starting HiringMonk. Two of those four startups were acquired by bigger entities. (dineout by times and eazyhire by insider). Currently, founder of HiringMonk (pioneers in startup recruitment) and Webtequila (Web designing). He speaks on HR and entrepreneurship at various levels and events.   

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