TEL · from the house ofby Skillinabox 🔒 Invite-only access

Where women founders find their next step.

The Entreprenaari Launchpad is a monthly circle of 20 women founders. Half a day, in person, built around your real problems — find your 0→1, build and sell, grow on social media, raise, hire, lead.

Apply for a seat What happens inside
Not a lecture — an ask→answer circle with women who are building, led by founders who have built.
20seats per
circle
₹0founding
cohort fee
A woman founder presenting her product to the circle
Women founders in conversation at the circle
Founders in conversation around a table, mid-session
20
women founders per circle
1
clear next step, each
4
hours, in person at HQ
₹0
for the founding cohort
The framework

Every business climbs the same 7 steps — at her pace.

A tailoring business earning ₹10,000 a month and a ₹50-crore company climb the same seven steps — Skillinabox included. Prateek walked this path. Thousands of Skillinabox learners are walking it now.

Every month, the circle takes one stretch of this path and works it on your real business — not a case study.

Tap a step to see what it really looks like

Looks like: three ideas in your head, one notebook, and the honest question of which one you'd still love doing two years from now.

Worked in Movement 1 · Find your 0→1I'm here — apply →

You decide how far you climb — and for some, it goes all the way to an IPO.

The secret ingredient? People. The ones who share your vision, who you trust, and who work with integrity. The framework helps you decide. People help you deliver.
The format

Four hours in the room

This is how the morning moves. You arrive with one problem in writing — and leave with a plan for the next 7 days. Timings indicative.

Swipe through the morning →
Founders swapping cards over lunch at the table
10:00Welcome

Chai, and 19 other women building like you

You walk into a room where everyone gets it — the orders, the family juggling, the ambition.

Two founders looking over a garment and fabric swatches together
10:10Introductions

Two minutes in pairs, one line to the room

By 10:25, you know every founder's name and what she's building.

A facilitator opening the session with the seated circle
10:25Opening game

"If you had all the capital and people you needed — what would you build?"

Then, in writing: the one thing I want to solve today.

Founders working through their worksheets at the whiteboard
10:40Movement 1 · Find your 0→1

Problem, customer, product, why now

Sharpen what you're building and who it's truly for.

Founders working on sketches and fabric swatches in the studio
11:10Movement 2 · Build and sell

First version, first customers, pricing

Marketing and 0→1 on social media — creating demand before you scale. Then a quick chai break.

Founders in group discussion over chai
11:55Movement 3 · Build the company

Fundraising, hiring, teams, delegation

And finding the people who share your vision.

A founder in the hot seat with the room on her side
12:20🔥 Founder hot seat

3 founders. 10 minutes each. The whole room on her side.

The room asks and suggests, Prateek adds a framework. She leaves with 1 problem named, 3 actions, 1 commitment — and an answer to "who makes this possible for you?"

A founder pinning her note to the gratitude wall
12:50Movement 4 · The founder

Focus, decide, execute, repeat

The operating rhythm that keeps a business moving — closing with your own 7-day commitment.

Founders over lunch, swapping numbers and stories
13:15Lunch & networking

Where the real conversations happen

Numbers swapped, intros promised, and a group that stays with you after the room empties.

You leave with: 1 problem, named 3 actions 1 commitment for 7 days 19 founders in your corner
Moments

Rooms full of women building things

Founders at work in the circle
A founder in the hot seat
A warm chai-break moment
The commitment wall
The people behind TEL
Prateek S BhardwajFounder & CEO, Skillinabox

Five failures. Zero capital. One rule: people first.

TEL isn't run by someone who read about the 0→1. It's run by someone who lived it — the hard way, five times over.

Prateek S Bhardwaj, Founder & CEO of Skillinabox

  • 5 ventures that didn't make it

    Before Skillinabox, Prateek built five startups that failed. No family money, no safety net — every restart began from zero.

  • ₹35 lakh+ sold before shipping a single thing

    That's how Skillinabox was funded — no capital, no investors at the start. Just customers who believed first. Selling before building is a TEL lesson because it's a lived one.

  • ₹50 crore+ revenue in 3 years

    On track to cross ₹100 crore this year — built on the same first steps the circle now teaches.

  • 30,000+ women, earning for real

    Skillinabox learners have earned a tracked ₹30 crore+ in the past 2 years. The playbook works at every scale — including yours.

YakutaSerial Entrepreneur · Scaling startups to ₹150 cr revenue

Ten years scaling. One mission: build with people.

The operator who's scaled some of India's biggest startups — now building Skillinabox into a global platform.

Yakuta

  • 10 years at Zomato

    Learned to build for people, and with people, inside one of India's defining companies.

  • 0 → ₹150 crore, more than once

    Scaled startups at Paytm, Fittr and Fibe from the ground up.

  • Ex-COO, Fittr · Partnerships at Fibe

    Ran operations and built the partnerships that take a company national.

  • Building Skillinabox global

    Now taking the same playbook worldwide — this time, for women founders.

Prashanth NairAngel Investor

Built a national brand. Sold it for ₹250 crore.

The operator-investor who scaled and sold a national education brand — now backing Skillinabox to go global.

Prashanth Nair

  • IIM Kozhikode · LSE

    A pedigree in business and economics, put to work building companies.

  • Ex-CEO, TIME Education Group

    Led one of India's largest test-prep brands.

  • ₹250 crore exit

    Sold TIME to Veranda.

  • Angel investor across startups

    With Skillinabox to build it globally.

Amit KulshreshthAngel Investor

Zero to IPO. Then he backs the next ones.

Took a company public, exited, and now invests in the founders building what's next.

Amit Kulshreshth

  • IIT (BHU) · IIM Kozhikode

    Engineering plus management — the builder-operator combination.

  • Ex-CEO & ED, Capital India Finance

    Took the company from 0 to IPO, then exited.

  • Active startup investor

    With Venture Catalysts and his own fund.

The team

The wingers building it with me

TEL doesn't happen alone. This is the team making every circle real — from the first invite to the last cup of chai.

DeepanshiDeepanshi
AsthaAstha
RitvikRitvik
TanyaTanya
RuchiRuchi
PriyankaPriyanka
Who we want in the room

Built for women who are building now

We keep the group small so every founder gets real attention. Seats are confirmed by application.

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Woman founder or co-founder, building right now

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A live product or service with first customers (preferred, not mandatory)

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Can attend in person at Skillinabox HQ

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Comes with one specific problem she wants to solve

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Willing to share openly and help other founders

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Any industry — you don't have to be from fashion or beauty

Where this goes

One circle is just the start

Every month

The Circle

A half-day, 20-founder working session at HQ. New theme, same promise: leave with a next step.

In between

The Community

A founders' group chat, peer intros, and a 7-day follow-up on the commitment you made in the room.

Coming up

Cohort 02

A multi-session launchpad with mentorship for founders who want to go deeper. Circle members get first access.

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Take your seat at the next circle

  • Saturday, 31 October · 10 AM – 2 PM
  • Skillinabox HQ · 3rd Floor, Building 5A & 5B, Fusion Square, Noida — 201301
  • Free for the founding cohort
  • Invite-only — applying doesn't guarantee a seat
  • We read every application and reach out to selected founders on WhatsApp

A 6-step application · about 5 minutes.

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