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Hiring for Startups: How to Build Your Team Early

Learn how to attract, engage, and lead the right people

Date
Dec 08, 2025
Time
01:00 pm - 02:30 pm
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Hiring the right people early can make or break a startup. Your first team members shape your culture, growth, and long-term success. In this webinar, you'll learn how to identify the right talent, engage early hires and co-founders, and avoid common pitfalls that derail young startups. Drawing on 30 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience across multiple industries, Karan Mangat, CEO of Skill Beyond Boundaries, will share practical insights and proven strategies to help founders build strong, effective teams from day one. Join us to gain actionable advice and leadership lessons that will help you hire smarter and scale faster.
What You'll Learn:

  •  How to identify and attract the right early hires and co-founders
  • Practical strategies to build trust and alignment within small teams
  • Leadership principles for scaling a strong and sustainable startup culture 

Featured Speaker:

  • Karan Mangat - CEO at Skill Beyond Boundaries - With over 30 years of successes and failures, both as an entrepreneur and in senior roles with global corporations, Karan Mangat, CEO of Skill Beyond Boundaries, brings a wealth of experience to every endeavor. His expertise spans corporate management, account and relationship management, transformation management, business development, and leadership across diverse sectors, including door-to-door sales, manufacturing, non-banking financial services, event management, visual merchandising, information technology, aerospace, public transportation, and recruitment. As both a thinker and a doer, he has consistently driven business success by leveraging existing knowledge and challenging the norm.

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Speakers

Karan

Karan Mangat

Skill Beyond Boundaries

Platinum Partners

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