One of the most underrated ways to master business skills is to teach them—even if you’re still learning yourself. That’s the power of peer-to-peer coaching.

In this model, learners are paired or grouped to coach each other on different aspects of building a business. You might have someone focused on branding give feedback to a partner working on pricing. Or swap roles weekly so everyone gets a turn as both coach and founder.

Why does this work?

• It reinforces knowledge: when you explain something, you understand it deeper.
• It encourages empathy and communication—key entrepreneurial skills.
• It builds community and accountability.

You don’t need to be an expert to coach. You just need to ask good questions:

• What are you trying to achieve this week?
• What’s getting in the way?
• Have you considered [X]?
• What would success look like here?

Structure sessions with short time blocks (10 mins per person), shared notes, and follow-up check-ins. You can even use peer scorecards or feedback forms to reflect and grow.

Peer coaching is perfect for classrooms, masterminds, bootcamps, or indie hacker communities. It turns passive students into active collaborators—and sometimes, into lifelong business partners.

In the startup world, you learn faster when you build together. Peer coaching makes that part of the process.