What does it take to build not just one, but 11 startups across different industries? NIC Faisalabad is hosting an upcoming LinkedIn Live to answer exactly that question, featuring Sheikh Hammad Amjad, a business therapist, consultant, coach, and startup mentor, who will share practical lessons drawn from more than 17 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business transformation, and startup development.
Having founded ventures across fashion, food, travel, retail, textiles, agriculture, education, and other sectors, Amjad brings a rare breadth of firsthand experience into the decisions, mistakes, and challenges founders face while validating ideas, building teams, entering markets, and growing sustainable businesses. This kind of cross-sector founder experience is relatively uncommon, giving Amjad a vantage point that spans very different market dynamics rather than the more typical single-industry founder perspective most startup mentorship draws from.
The conversation will explore the realities of entrepreneurship, common founder blind spots, and the lessons early-stage entrepreneurs should know before scaling their ventures, addressing a stage of startup growth where many founders encounter unexpected structural or operational challenges they hadn’t anticipated while still focused primarily on product development or early customer acquisition. Given Amjad’s specific background as a business therapist alongside his more conventional consulting and mentoring roles, the session may also touch on the psychological and personal dimensions of repeatedly building and navigating multiple ventures, an aspect of entrepreneurship that receives comparatively less attention in typical founder-focused programming.
Scheduled for Tuesday, August 4, 2026, from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, the LinkedIn Live is supported by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication and Ignite National Technology Fund, continuing the pattern of institutional backing behind NIC Faisalabad’s founder-facing content and mentorship programming, with this session offering founders across Pakistan direct access to lessons drawn from an unusually diverse entrepreneurial track record.
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