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.
The RACI Matrix: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to RACI matrix, 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 Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM): Practical MBA Gu
A rigorous practical guide to responsibility assignment matrix, 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.
Effective Scrum Meetings: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to effective Scrum meetings, 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.
What Is Stakeholder Management?: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to stakeholder 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.
Stakeholder Analysis: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to stakeholder analysis, 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.
Project Management: A Complete Operating Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to convert a temporary objective into governed scope, outcomes, work, resources, risk, stakeholder commitments, learning, and an orderly close. 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.
Action Plans That Turn Intent Into Results
A rigorous, practical guide to turn a bounded objective into sequenced, owned, resourced, reviewable actions while preserving the reason and outcome behind the plan. 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.
Burndown Charts: Forecast Work Without Gaming
A rigorous, practical guide to use remaining-work trends as an honest conversation about scope, flow, forecast, and impediments rather than as a productivity score. 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.
COGS Calculation: Formula, Controls, and Decisions
Cost of goods sold links inventory, purchasing, production, and revenue recognition. This chapter explains the formula, cost classification, inventory methods, overhead allocation, landed cost, write-downs, controls, reconciliation, gross-margin bridges, and the limits of accounting cost for decisions.
Consumer Insights: From Evidence to Strategic Action
Consumer insights explain a meaningful customer behavior or tension and point toward action; they are not observations dressed up as slogans. This chapter covers decision framing, mixed evidence, interpretation, bias, insight writing, opportunity design, testing, governance, and responsible research.
Bootstrapping in Business: Cash, Control, and Growth
Bootstrapping preserves control and creates discipline, but undercapitalization can destroy value. This chapter explains customer-funded growth, cash conversion, staged commitments, bricolage, unit economics, founder risk, financing options, governance, and the decision to keep bootstrapping or raise capital.
Product-Wise Profitability: A Decision Framework
Product revenue and gross margin can hide discounts, returns, service burden, channel cost, capacity, and working capital. This chapter builds a reconciled product-profitability system, explains contribution and allocations, and shows how to make pricing, portfolio, capacity, and discontinuation decisions responsibly.