The decisions that come before the idea works.
Most businesses do not fail on the idea. They fail on the money, the sequencing and the founder’s own judgement under pressure. This programme works on those three, using real founder cases rather than motivational material.
Unit economics, on one page.
Price, variable cost, contribution, fixed cost, break even. Most businesses that fail could have seen it on a sheet this size in month two. You build yours in the room.
Real documents on the table. That is the whole method.
Is this the right room for you?
Final-year students (UG and PG), business owners, and anyone seriously considering building something of their own.
If you are still exploring
One day to pressure-test the idea, understand what founders actually spend their time on, and find out whether you want this before you commit money to it.
If you are ready to build
Three days on the plan itself, costing, marketing, networks, risk and the first year, ending with your own business idea written up and defensible.
- Turning an idea into a business that can be costed
- What founders actually focus on, day to day
- Marketing and branding on a real budget
- Networking that produces something
- Handling failure and risk without freezing
- Real founder case studies, including the failures
- Your own first business idea, built out in the room
What it costs, stated up front.
Every fee is inclusive, case materials, both assessments, the certificate, and lunch and coffee on teaching days. No exam fee, no material fee.
Founder mindset, Explorer
1 day · classroom · Bengaluru
For the stage where you have an idea and no idea whether it is one. A day to find out, with the numbers attached.
inclusive · all case materials · lunch and coffee
Founder mindset, Builder
3 days · 24 hours · Finwisdemy certificate
For the stage where the decision is made. Three days on costing, marketing, risk and the first twelve months.
limited seats per batch · inclusive of all materials
Fees are payable in full at enrolment. Seats are confirmed in the order they are paid, and batches are deliberately small.
How the time is actually spent.
The sessions, and the document on the table for each one.
From idea to something you can cost
Problem, customer and willingness to pay · unit economics on one page · what to build first
Your idea, costed on a single sheet
Money, risk and the first twelve months
Runway · pricing · working capital · the borrowing decisions founders regret · personal versus business finance
A twelve-month cash plan with the assumptions written down
Getting known, and staying standing
Marketing and branding on a real budget · networks that produce something · handling failure · founder case studies
Your first business idea, presented and pulled apart
Six modules. One complete financial journey.
From your first bank account to your first tax return. Each module ends in the Practical Finance Lab, where the concept becomes a calculation you have run yourself.
Financial foundation
- Banking and KYC basics
- Active versus passive income
- Needs versus wants
- Budgeting and the 50/30/20 rule
- Saving and financial planning
- Smart money habits
Loans, credit cards and CIBIL
- Home, personal and business loans
- Education, car and gold loans
- Credit cards and the billing cycle
- EMI, interest and tenure
- CIBIL score and the credit report
- The minimum-due trap
Practical Finance Lab
Every module ends with real calculations, reports, policies and case studies. Because knowing is not the same as doing.
Read a real CIBIL report
Each small group gets its own anonymised report. The stack is deep enough that nobody shares. Read it end to end and find the reason the application failed.
Compare two loan offers
Two real offers, one headline rate each. Apply the three-rule checkpoint: net-worth impact, transparent single-digit APR, EMI under 20% of take-home. Decide which is genuinely cheaper, and why the other looked it.
Cross-examine a policy
Two or three real policy documents. Circle the sub-limits, the co-pay percentage, the room-rent cap and the waiting period. Debrief the ones nobody spotted.
You rotate through all three stations, 15 minutes of work, 5 minutes comparing as a group, 5 minutes of debrief. You take the material home the same day.
The practitioners in this room.
Each session is led by someone who has done this work for a living.
Mayur Bhat
Digital marketing · AI tools · Founder marketing
Teaches the marketing and AI track, and the marketing sessions inside Founder Mindset. Current tools, used on real campaigns, with output at the end of the session rather than vocabulary.
Praveen Balasundar
Financial literacy · Loans and CIBIL · Insurance and protection
Ten years on the front line of lending and insurance before he taught any of it. Praveen designed the Financial Mastery curriculum and teaches the credit and protection modules from files that came off his own desk.
Prashant Jogimutt
Mutual funds · Investment planning · Goal matching
Leads the mutual funds module. Prashant teaches fund selection the way it is done in practice, factsheet open, benchmark alongside, and the question of what the money is actually for asked first.
Where this programme leads.
Stated plainly. These are the doors it opens, not promises about walking through them.
Into a costed plan
A first-year plan with numbers you can defend, not a deck of adjectives.
Into a clearer decision
Including, sometimes, the decision not to, reached early, while it is still cheap.
Into a better-run existing business
Owners leave with the finance side of their business finally legible to them.
A credential that stands out on your resume.
Every learner who completes a programme receives a Finwisdemy Certificate of Completion, recognised proof of practical financial competency you can show in interviews, at placements and on LinkedIn.
Resume
A real, industry-relevant credential.
Something specific to show on your professional profile.
BFSI ready
A practical edge in placements and interviews.
About founder mindset.
Do I need a background in finance or commerce?
No. Every programme starts from zero and assumes no vocabulary. Students, freshers and working professionals sit in the same room and it works, because we teach from real documents rather than from theory.
What does it cost?
BFSI Basics is ₹3,999 for the day. BFSI Advance is ₹14,999 for the full 6-7 day programme, with limited seats. That fee rises to ₹24,999 for later batches. Founder Mindset is ₹4,999 for the one-day Explorer and ₹14,999 for the three-day Builder. Fees for Mutual Funds and Trading and for Career Ready are confirmed on enquiry. Every fee is inclusive: case materials, both assessments, the certificate, and lunch and coffee on teaching days.
Do you guarantee a job?
No, and we would not trust anyone who does. Every provider promising total job assurance hedges it in their own small print. What we do offer is placement assistance: we hold a working list of BFSI employers who hire at entry level, we match your profile against what they are actually looking for, and we put you forward for interviews you are a genuine fit for. You still have to pass the interview. We prepare you for that with a recorded mock-interview lab and written feedback.
Who teaches?
Practitioners. Finance is led by Praveen Balasundar, ten years in lending and insurance, IRDAI, MDRT, COT and NISM certified. Seven more faculty lead the tracks they have worked in: mutual funds, trading, digital marketing and AI, career coaching, professional image, global education and career opportunities.
Is this online or in a classroom?
Classroom, at Rajajinagar in Bengaluru, with limited seats. The lab work does not survive translation to a webinar, so we do not run one. Closed cohorts run on your campus or at your office.
What is the Practical Finance Lab?
The part of every module where you stop listening and start working. Real anonymised CIBIL reports, real loan offers compared side by side, real policy documents cross-examined for sub-limits. Three stations, fifteen minutes each, then a debrief.
Can you run this for our college or company?
Yes. Every programme runs as a closed cohort on campus or on site, with results reported back at cohort level. Colleges usually want awareness of the scams currently targeting students alongside the core material; employers usually want the debt-trap and investment-strategy sessions weighted heavier. Tell us the group and we will build it around them.
Come and sit in the room.
Tell us which programme interests you and we will call you the same working day. One call. Then it is your decision.
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