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Catch Ankur Warikoo discussing philosphy and insights around business and get a sneak peek into Stoa School as we kick things off with our Premiere Cohort!

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Stoa School : The Philosophical Pursuit of Business w/Ankur Warikoo

Why did genuine learning start to feel so subversive, rebellious, and revolutionary?

What exactly went wrong with universities and conventional education?

How can we rethink education from first principles?

How can we leverage the internet and the power of online communities for learning?

For answers to all of these questions and a lot more, join Austen, Raj, and Aditya in this fireside chat at Stoa School as they share insights on the future of education and learning communities.

Austen is the Founder and CEO of Lambda School, a Y Combinator-backed startup that gives ambitious individuals a free CS education until they get a well-paying job. And of course, if you're active on Twitter and within EdTech circles, Austen needs no introduction.

Also, this is his first public conversation with Indian founders — his first real glimpse into the Indian startup ecosystem. So let's show him what we're all about, shall we?

Register to receive a link to the YouTube livestream.

Stoa School w/ Austen Allred : Rethinking Education from First Principles

The last few weeks on the internet have been chaotic to say the least. Capitol Riots, Trump banned from social media, r/wallstreetbets going nuts with $GME, Indian farmer protests and internet bans....phew. 

) will be going live with friends from the Indian startup circles to discuss the impacts of these events on the future of the internet and businesses that run on it.

Mobs on the Internet | @kunksed and friends

We are shutting down the 12-week MBA Bootcamp.

In the spirit of building in public, we'd like you join in on a private Zoom call with Aditya and Raj to share their experience with our premiere cohort — what worked, what didn't, and why we're taking the decision to shut down this program.

Keeping up with our mission, you'll also be the first to know what we're launching next.

Whether you are an aspiring founder, online educator, well-wisher or a Stoa aspirant, show up and we'll make sure that your time will be worth it.

The interactive zoom call will be limited to 50 registrants.

Edit : We'll probably end up doing a zoom webinar.

We are shutting down the 12-week MBA.

 : Limited seats available. We will manually be rolling out invites to profiles who we think will benefit the most from the workshop.

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If hearing the word 'CRM' makes you want to run away like Usain Bolt, you've come to the right place.

Collecting and pursuing leads, sending emails based on the stage in the pipeline and keeping information in one place is a nightmare, when you're dealing with a marketing and operations process that is constantly evolving.

Buying expensive solutions perhaps isn't the best way to go about increasing your productivity, nor is juggling 69 Google Sheets.

If you are looking to tap into the power of no-code, we have something for you. Now it might not help you gain back all your lost time, but we'll sure help you automate work with ease so that you can sleep peacefully.

's our resident No-Code Wizard, and he's coming around to help you get familiar with setting up no-code tools to manage your marketing and operations work, be it for your business, workplace or side-hustle!

30 minute demo followed by Q&As and open consultations based on your needs.

No-Code Magic | Stoa School Workshop

Considering applying to Stoa School but have questions that you seek answers to?

We at Stoa School recognize and respect your need for seeking clarity before you commit yourself to our rigorous selection process.

 on Zoom where our team members will address your questions on anything and everything that you might want to know about Stoa School.

Join in. We promise that you'll leave with a better sense of what you should do next.

 In case you register and are unable to attend the session, we shall send you a recording of the same.

Stoa School: Live Q&A for aspirants

You must have heard of how people bag jobs, clients and investment using Twitter.

But do you find yourself clueless about how to even get started?

Is it hard to figure out how to restrict yourself to only 280 characters?

We get it, Twitter's quite the wormhole to get lost in, and if you don't know who to follow and learn from, you most likely will want to deactivate your account within the hour, if not a week.

We know you have thoughts & ideas to share, but just don't know how to. We're here to introduce you to some cool professional twitter niches we know of, and how to bring in your knowledge to network your way to opportunities on Twitter.

 (@kunksed, 6k followers) will be sharing tips, tricks and strategies around using Twitter.

30 minute breakdown followed by Q&As and open consultations based on your needs.

Twitter for Professionals | Stoa Workshops

“I have the distinct pleasure of being both the founder of a unicorn and the founder of a massive failure.”

, Gagan helped build the largest platform for online courses. As CEO of 

, he tried to spark a food delivery revolution but failed after raising $50M.

Gagan has been an integral part of fostering the “

” culture in the valley. He helped out 

 as their first growth marketeer and put down their launch playbook for entering new markets.

After travelling the world for 3 years, Gagan is back with his new EdTech startup which helps creators build 

Join us live on YouTube for Stoa School’s 

 Inaugural talk as Gagan walks us through his journey growing up an immigrant kid and breaking into the Sillcon Valley startup scene as a relative outsider. 

In his first ever public talk for the Indian audience, Gagan will also share his struggles and experience with building Udemy just a few years after graduating from college. 

This will be followed by a brief Q&A session. We’ll also hear Gagan out on his vision for EdTech at his new startup.

 is India’s premier online business education institution designed to help top professionals master the workings of tech enabled businesses. We’re backed by the founders who defined India’s startup wave in the last decade.

 and walk out with the confidence to take on any business role!

Gagan Biyani on Building Udemy | Stoa School

We at Stoa School recognise and respect your need for seeking clarity before you commit yourself to our rigorous selection process.

 on Zoom where our alumni and current fellows will address your questions on anything and everything that you might want to know about Stoa School. This will not be moderated by the Stoa team.

Join in. We promise that you'll leave with a better sense of what you should do next :)

We’ll have 4-6 alumni from Cohort 1 and current fellows from Cohort 2 across experience ranges and backgrounds joining us.

Stoa School: Live Q&A with alumni

 on Zoom where the founders, alumni and current fellows will address your questions on anything and everything that you might want to know about Stoa School.

We’ll have the founders, 3-4 alumni from Cohort 1 and current fellows from Cohort 2 across experience ranges and backgrounds joining us.

Stoa School: Live Q&A with Founders & Alumni

Mapping out the next moves in your career path can be tricky, especially if you aren't totally sure what your personal vision and motivation is in your work.

1-hour interactive, live, group call for women looking for clarity in their professional lives.

​It is going to be an interactive session where you get to 

 around how to grow in your career, navigate role change, create ambitious goals and paths to fulfil them.

​Then you should grab this opportunity to get on a free 1-hour, live interactive group call that will have 

. To answer your questions, we have on the panel 

She is a trained NLP practitioner and Coach with 14 years of experience as a Human Resource practitioner before embarking on a career as an executive coach.

She works with young executives looking to establish themselves in their workplace, mid-career professionals looking for a career boost and entrepreneurs committed to creating a thriving, successful business

, Marketing lead at Stoa School, ex-Mindvalley

She has successful transitioned from career in IT to marketing. She has worked with organisations like Mindvalley, Isha Foundation and now manages marketing at Stoa School. 

He is the co-founder of Stoa School and an IIM-B and BITS Pilani alumnus. He has built and sold two startups in the past. 

Through Stoa School, he has mentored 100 people through various career challenges. 

You will also get to interact with women from Stoa School's MBA program who are on their journey to find career clarity and have taken the first steps towards it. 

 so that everyone gets a chance to ask their questions and walks away with more clarity that before.

​The call will be hosted on zoom and all the 

 that you will use to register for the event.

Women, build career clarity and confidence!

Job security is the ability to get your next job, not keep your current one.”

The odds are that almost everyone has experienced or will experience unemployment, self-employment or despair at current job at some time in their working life. 

The hardest part during these times is job hunting. When you are chasing companies you are going to get rejected. You are going to get rejected A LOT! 

Now, we are not going to tell you surface level things like how to make CV or cover letter. Our aim is to help you not let the economic and professional disasters happen in the first place. 

You have to re-think, re-position and re-configure yourself in the in today's sink-or-swim environment. 

Your strongest skills must be evident in all that you do. You must exploit their value, showcase them to the world, and create demand for yourself… not just once but multiple times.

Want to know how to get recruiters & founders to knock on your doors?

To help you with that, we are hosting a workshop on how to stay in demand in the job market. 

 (@kunksed, 6k followers) will be sharing tips, tricks and strategies around creating an in-deman profile.

30 minute session followed by Q&As open to everyone. 

Staying in Demand | Stoa Masterclass

We know it is very hard to make decisions, especially when it comes to your career. There are no rules written for when to quit your job, which offer to take, or what's a suitable time for a career transition?

Working on your own terms, switching industries, and going back to education are all TOUGH calls to make because they impact your life directly.

These decisions will impact your life and maybe the people dependent upon you, and if you make a decision based on your intuition you do not want to regret that later, because let us be honest, 

Whether you are working for a while or just started, the stakes are quite high when making any of these decisions. So you can't just go with what you felt today morning or last night or what your intuition says.

Career changes do induce anxiety and nervousness, but there must be a way to avoid the common mistakes people make at this junction.

This 1 Hour, Free, Live Masterclass is for you whether you just started out or have been working for a while. 

 (@kunksed, 7.5k followers) will be sharing processes, frameworks and tools around making a major career decision

30-minute workshop followed by Q&As open to everyone. 

⚠️⚠️ This is not a ‘talk’. You’ll be expected to put in efforts during the workshop.

Hence, join this masterclass ONLY if you are done 'hoping' to get a career boost and are super serious about making changes.

Making Tough Career Decisions | Stoa Masterclass

"When you begin building your business with your future audience in mind, the guesswork ends."

Arvid is a software engineer, founder, and author. 

 with his partner, which they successfully sold for a life-changing amount of money within two years.

He is the author of the bestselling book 'Zero to Sold’ and recently launched another book called ‘The Embedded Entrepreneur.' 

He's German. You can expect brutal honesty and no-nonsense advice in this chat. 

Join us live on Zoom as we talk to Arvid about how instead of looking for the customers for their product, 

entrepreneurs can find customers and build solutions with them. 

Even his latest book was written in public with the help of his audience and hundreds of founders and Indie Hackers.

what Arvid did differently with his ideas that made the difference between success and failure

. Watch and listen to Arvid talk about his journey as an entrepreneur.

This will be followed by a brief Q&A session where you can directly ask questions from him. 

 is India’s premier online business education institution designed to help top professionals master the workings of tech-enabled businesses. We’re backed by the founders who defined India’s startup wave in the last decade.

Building Audience-Driven Businesses | Stoa Fireside Chat 

Mapping out the next moves in your career path can be tricky, especially if you aren't sure what your personal vision and goals are. 

​We are hosting a 1-hour interactive, live group call for women looking for clarity in their professional lives and who want to learn how to set personal goals.

​It will be an interactive session where 

 about how to grow in your career, navigate role change, create ambitious goals and paths to fulfill them.

​Then you should grab this opportunity to get on a 

 that will have only women participants. 

To answer your questions, we have on the panel: 

Erica is a career coach who helps ambitious Asian women build their *true* dream careers while overcoming perfectionism and practicing self-care.

With 8 years of experience under her belt, she's worked as a Product & Marketing Manager with companies like L'Oréal & Mindvalley. In her most recent role, she set the record for the 3 biggest launches in the company's 15-year history, generating over $10M in combined product launch revenue during her tenure, among several other milestones.

As a recovering perfectionist, Erica specializes in mindset training for overachieving Asian women who want authentic fulfillment in their days. In her work as a coach, she helps students get clear on their definition of success so they can finally create their true dream careers—and actually live their lives to the fullest, too.

, Marketing lead at Stoa School, ex-Mindvalley.

She has successfully transitioned from a career in IT to marketing. She has worked with organizations like Dell, Mindvalley & Isha Foundation. Priya has experience building a travel startup of her own that took 500+ people on trips & treks. 

He is the co-founder of Stoa School and an IIM-B and BITS Pilani alumnus. He has built and sold two startups in the past.

Through Stoa School, he has mentored 100 people through various career challenges.

You will also get to interact with women from Stoa School's MBA program who are on their journey to find career clarity and have taken the first steps towards it.

​We are limiting the seats to only a few women so that everyone gets a chance to ask their questions and walks away with more clarity than before.

 and all the details will be shared on the 

email that you will use to register for the event.

Women, build career clarity and set personal goals!

“How do I go about building a product without knowing how to code?”

“I know to code, but damn…how do I move faster on building products?”

Are these questions that keep you up at night when you have a new biz idea?

 (Program Director, OnDeck No-Code Fellowship)will be live with us at Stoa School to answer all these questions and much more.

His mentorship at On Deck has brought many products to life in varying fields and pushed more people to dabble in their interest of product building. 

What you can take away from this session :

- words that Karthik Puvvada has immortalised through his Twitter. 

Karthik has donned the hats of Data Analyst, Program Manager and now is a Program Director at 

He’s been known pre-OnDeck as the guy that built in public, sharing both his wins and losses, so other people could learn from his mistakes. 

Spurring a movement of founders willing to share their journeys to have people empathise with them, transparently. 

We will have a brief Q&A post his session, because we know there’s quite a bit of interest from within our community as well, in the no-code space. 

 to see what happens on the inside at Stoa School’s Community events. 

[Inside Access] No-Code for Entrepreneurs

You feel like your ideas are not heard. There are long messy email threads you can't decipher anymore. No idea who will be working on what. There are conflicts between your team members. You avoid challenging conversations because you have no idea how to handle them. 

problem is not your grammar or English speaking skills

. It's not even your role or position. It's time to start communicating effectively and use that to get ahead in your career.  

Effective communication is now more important than ever before since we started working remotely. If you want to avoid the ongoing game of phone calls and zoom meetings, you have to start writing clear, concise, and timely emails. To keep your meetings short, know how and when to speak. 

free, live 1-hour masterclass on how to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. 

In this masterclass, you will learn how to:

Imagine that you can speak up at any time in meetings and 

everyone in the room understands your messages and is impressed by your confidence

. Wouldn't it be great to leverage your soft skills to supercharge your career?

This 1 Hour, Free, Live Masterclass is for you whether you are working as an individual contributor, manager or company of your own. Basically, if you do any communication with other humans to get things done, this is for you. 

 (@kunksed, 7.5k followers) will be sharing processes, frameworks, and tools around effective communication. 

​​In the end, we will have Q&As open to everyone.

​⚠️⚠️ This is not a ‘talk’. You’ll be expected to put in efforts during the workshop doing a communication exercise.

​Hence, join this masterclass ONLY if you understand that communication isn't easy but it's worth it. 

Business Communication For Professionals

 but you have no idea what to do? If you look for ideas online, you give up because there are so many to choose from that it only confuses you more. 

And if you finally find something, it requires technical skills or fancy things like knowledge of data science. Hiring anyone is expensive and silly even before you know if the idea will work. And hence, 

you crush your dreams of becoming a digital entrepreneur. 

you don’t have to be a developer or engineer

 to be a digital entrepreneur. In 2021, it’s easy to use your skills and creativity to build successful businesses with the help of existing tools. And we are going to give you those ideas! 

In this workshop, we are killing two birds with one stone - 

 to use to work on those ideas. These business ideas don't require a lot of capital and can be built even if you are not an engineer or developer. 

With an abundance of existing problems out there, just waiting to be solved, this can be your chance to make it big.

After attending this masterclass, we are sure that you will walk away with at least 

Let me also throw in this sweet deal: If you build upon any of the ideas, 

Imagine, the possibility of building a side business just because you invested 1 hour in attending a Stoa masterclass! 

Note: This workshop is for anyone who has extra time on their hands, has exhausted all Netflix shows, and is ready to build something. 

 (@kunksed, 8.1k+ followers) will be sharing 5 startup-up ideas for non-coders and how to execute them.

 5 Business Ideas For Non-Coders 

 : We’ve got 1k+ registrations for the event. We’re shifting the event to a YouTube livestream instead of a Zoom meeting in order to maintain sanity.

Want to attract career or business opportunities rather than you chasing them? 

Or do you want to easily connect with like-minded people without struggling with cold DMs?

 that will lend you more credibility. And the 

easiest way to do so is by writing online.

Networking has changed in the digital age & online writing is making a comeback. You no longer need PR or press to make yourself heard or seen. But now, you can write online and build yourself as a brand.

• Vaibhav Domkundwar, Founder & CEO of Better 

 (a newsletter read by tens of thousands of subscribers), & 

• Bhanu Harish Gurram, Co-Founder of Ditto Insurance & Finshots

Everything you write online is an advertisement for the kinds of people and opportunities you want to attract. Writing and sharing your work has marginal cost & the ability to spread around the world even while you sleep. It's time you take advantage of that. 

Vaibhav Domkundwar, Founder & CEO of Better 

Vaibhav has started 2 successful companies - one venture-backed startup (Roamware) that was acquired for 9 figures and one bootstrapped (Better) that he built from the ground up into a profitable tech venture firm. 

Tanvi has been writing her newsletter, FilterCoffee, every single day for the past 10 months. She has grown her audience from 0 to 10K email subscribers. The number of sponsorship requests she gets from founders and companies is much more than she can handle.

Bhanu is the co-founder of Ditto Insurance & Finshots. He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Roorkee. His company Finshots

has  250K+ subscriber base & continues to grow. Someone with no prior experience in media whatsoever, he has made a unique path of his own, helping Indian millennials understand ‘

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