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.
Customer intimacy: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to customer intimacy, 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.
Keller’s brand equity model: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to Keller brand equity 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.
The buy sell hierarchy: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to buy sell hierarchy, 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.
Lifetime value of customers: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to customer lifetime value, 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.
How to Win Competitors’ Customers Ethically
A rigorous, practical guide to study and serve dissatisfied or underserved customers of competitors without copying the competitor. 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.
Revenue Maximization: A Strategic Operating Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to increase sustainable revenue by coordinating price, volume, mix, retention, capacity, and customer value. 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.
Retail Management: The Complete Operating System
A rigorous, practical guide to design a retail system in which assortment, price, place, experience, inventory, people, and economics reinforce one another. 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.
Geolocation Marketing With Privacy and Purpose
A rigorous, practical guide to use place and moment to improve relevance while protecting consent, privacy, accuracy, and customer control. 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.
Business Licensing and Funding: A Strategic Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to separate regulatory permission, intellectual-property licensing, and capital design so each supports a viable operating model. 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.
Lean Manufacturing: Flow, Quality and People
A rigorous, practical guide to improve customer value and flow by exposing waste, reducing variation, developing people, and solving causes rather than symptoms. 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.
The marketing research mix: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to marketing research mix, 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.
Developing personas: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to developing personas, 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.