Entrepreneur · Author · Business Educator
Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna is an Indian entrepreneur, business educator, and creator known for Intellectual Indies and Lapaas. At Indies Education, he turns business research and operating experience into rigorous, practical lessons.
- 684
- Published lessons
- 1M+
- Primary-channel subscribers
- 2017
- Intellectual Indies founded
Background and practice
From engineering fundamentals to practical business education
Sahil’s published profiles describe a transition from chemical engineering into marketing and management. That combination—systems thinking from engineering and commercial judgment from business—continues to shape how he explains complex ideas.
He founded Intellectual Indies in 2017 and built it into a business-learning content ecosystem covering company case studies, startups, marketing, strategy, and candid founder conversations. He also founded Lapaas, a New Delhi digital-marketing and education business. Sahil describes his entrepreneurial journey as including the eventual exit from the agency he built.
Across workshops, courses, consulting, and digital media, Sahil’s work has reached students, startup founders, legacy-business owners, and operating teams. His primary Intellectual Indies channel has more than one million subscribers. Sahil’s public profiles describe a combined audience above two million across his content ecosystem, while Lapaas course pages report more than 140,000 entrepreneurs reached through its educational work.
At Indies Education, Sahil serves as author and lead educator. Every lesson is designed to go beyond definitions: readers should understand the mechanism, examine evidence and limits, apply a framework, and leave with an action plan and checklist.
Elsewhere
Profiles and source notes
Written by Sahil Khanna
Latest business lessons
Evidence-led chapters designed to move from understanding to action.
Most Important Sources for Startup Funding
A rigorous practical guide to fundraising strategies, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
SEO Guide for Beginners: Build a Search System That Deserves Discovery
Learn SEO from crawling and intent to evidence, authority, measurement, and maintenance. Apply the CLEAR Path, diagnose failures in order, and implement a responsible ninety-day beginner programme for lasting results.
What Is Digital Marketing? A Manager’s Operating System
Understand digital marketing as an integrated management system. Learn the VALUE Loop, map customer journeys, balance channels and measurement, calculate funnel economics, manage privacy, and execute a practical ninety-day action plan.
Nykaa Business Model: A Detailed Case Study
A filing-based analysis of Nykaa’s trust-led commerce system, covering customer value, curated retail, owned brands, stores, fulfilment, revenue logic, FY2025–26 vertical economics, cash and capital, competitive risks, governance, a practical action plan, and an executive checklist.
What Is a Business Model? A Manager’s Complete Guide
Understand a business model as a complete system for creating, delivering, and capturing value. Learn to design causal hypotheses, compare alternatives, test customer demand, calculate unit and cash economics, govern risks, and make an evidence-based stop, revise, or scale decision.
Identifying and Avoiding Unethical Behavior at Work
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Learning How to Manage Former Peers Fairly
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Developing Fundamental Leadership Skills Through Real Work
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Taking Responsibility in a New Leadership Role
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Bridging the Gap Between Young and Old at Work
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Leadership Pipeline Model: Transitions and Practice
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Leading in a Downturn: Decisions and Recovery
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.