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.
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.
ROI vs Margin: Formulas, Meaning, and Decisions
Margin shows profit earned per unit of revenue; ROI relates return to invested resources. This chapter explains formulas, numerator and denominator choices, DuPont decomposition, incremental analysis, cash flow, time, risk, portfolio trade-offs, and why attractive percentages can still destroy value.
Product pricing strategies: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to product pricing 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.
New startup opportunities: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to new startup opportunities, 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.
Growth hacking: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to growth hacking, 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.
Business planning: arrow model: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to business planning arrow model, 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.
Hassle premium: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to hassle premium, 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.
RiaSiMis Success Ritual: An Evidence-Based Guide
RiaSiMis has no verified standing as an established academic model. This chapter preserves the catalog term while defining a transparent Indies Education routine—Review, Aim, Single priority, Minimum action, Score—and connecting each step to credible research on goals, habits, feedback, and progress.
Speed as Competitive Advantage: A Systems Model
Speed can improve learning, cash, service, and customer choice, but rushing creates defects and burnout. This chapter separates customer-valued time from mere busyness and explains flow diagnostics, decision latency, feedback loops, capacity, reliability, economics, and responsible acceleration.
Entry Barrier Strategies: Build a Defensible Moat
Entry barriers shape whether competitors can enter and profit, but not every advantage is a moat. This chapter explains structural, strategic, and institutional barriers, capability systems, network and switching effects, legal limits, measurement, attack simulations, and ethical defense.
Family-Owned and Family-Run Business Governance
Family ownership can create patient capital, identity, trust, and speed, while overlapping roles create distinctive conflicts. This chapter separates family, ownership, and management; designs governance forums and policies; and addresses professionalization, dividends, succession, fairness, and continuity.
New product development: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to new product development, 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.