Founder's Friend — 1-on-1 Mentoring
Private, ongoing mentoring for early-stage founders (3 months to 5 years in) who need a sounding board for strategy, sales, hiring and the hard decisions.
The flagship entrepreneurship coaching program
Be Your Own Boss
A structured coaching program for students, working professionals and homemakers who want to choose entrepreneurship as a career — and start right instead of starting fast.
Most first-time founders don't fail because the idea was bad. They fail because they jumped in without a plan, a mentor or a system. Be Your Own Boss is the program Dr. Vikrant built from his own five-year failure and from evaluating more than 10,000 startup ideas since.
How it works
You work through the full founder journey in small cohorts — from a raw idea to a validated offer, a simple business plan and your first paying customers. Every module ends with a real assignment on your own business, reviewed in the next session.
Why it's different
Ground-level, realistic content in English, Marathi and Hindi. No theory for the sake of theory: every tool you learn is something you use the same week.
What's included
- Live cohort sessions with Dr. Vikrant
- Idea validation toolkit and templates
- One-page business plan workshop
- Sales and pricing playbook for your first 10 customers
- Founder habits and discipline module
- Lifetime access to the founder community
What you walk away with
A validated idea — or a clear reason to drop it before losing money
A one-page business plan you can pitch
A repeatable way to find and close early customers
Clarity on whether to start now, later, or part-time
I came in with a business idea and a resignation letter ready. I left with a validated offer, my first five customers — and I kept my job for six more months, which was the right call.
The biggest change was moving from hourly billing to packages. Our average deal size more than doubled in a quarter.
Having someone who has failed and bounced back in your corner is different. He doesn't let you hide from the hard decisions.
Other ways to work together
Idea Validation & Business Plan Clinic
A focused engagement to pressure-test your startup idea, size the market, define the customer and turn it into a business plan you can act on.
Fundraising Readiness
Help with deciding whether to raise at all, building an investor-ready pitch deck and financials, and connecting with angels in the YourSarthi network.