India has seen a lot of me too “cut and pastes’ from internet models worldwide. From the Amazons to the Ubers to everything in between, clones have been tried in India. Unfortunately, this type of cloning will not work for…
There has been so much noise about the internet food delivery space in India recently. Internet kitchens, home chefs, restaurant aggregators, hyper local logistic companies, etc. Most of the business models are not well thought through when it comes to…
Fast, actionable, asynchronous, yet near real-time nature of messaging has led to its graduation from being a standalone communication channel to a powerful nucleus supporting variety of emerging utilities and applications. Sensing a shift in preferences, businesses are advancing from…
My Harvard Business School professor came to visit me a few weeks ago. At the end of the meeting, he asked me what I thought of a business that is into a marketplace for “branded” hotel rooms in India. My…
There has been a lot of unnecessary recent negative press and social media chatter around a recent de-valuation in an Indian unicorn by an existing investor in the company. Valuation fluctuations are par for course in large fast growing private…
Nexus was an early backer of one of the two leading free online horizontal classifieds in India and was instrumental in building out its leadership in the country. Both the leading companies are helmed by smart mature leaders and the…
Mumbai, February 5, 2016: Turtlemint.com announced that it has raised an investment round led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Blume Ventures. Turtlemint has built India’s first truly personalized insurance platform which provides recommendations to customers based on proprietary…