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.
Accelerator vs Incubator: Choose the Right Support
A rigorous, practical guide to choose among accelerator, incubator, venture studio, coworking, grant, or independent execution based on stage, constraints, evidence, economics, and programme quality. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated.
Fundraising Through BSE: A Readiness Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to evaluate whether a BSE main-board or SME public issue fits the company and prepare governance, disclosure, adviser, eligibility, issue, and post-listing readiness. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis.
BSE Listing Explained: What, Why and How
A rigorous, practical guide to understand what a BSE listing is, why a company might pursue it, how the regulated path works, and what continuing governance it requires. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn.
Account-Based Marketing: A Complete ABM Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to coordinate marketing, sales, service, and leadership around a selected portfolio of accounts with account-specific insight, value, orchestration, and measurement. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Customer relationship management: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to customer relationship management, 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.
Why Change Can Fail (Part 2): Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to advanced change failure diagnosis, 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.
Conducting a Project Healthcheck: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to project healthcheck, 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.
After Action Review (AAR) Process: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to after action review, 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.
Why Do Projects Fail?: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to project failure diagnosis, 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.
Critical Path Analysis and PERT Charts: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to critical path and PERT, 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.
Planning Large Projects and Programs: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to large project and program planning, 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.
The MoSCoW Method: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to MoSCoW prioritization, 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.