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Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jul 8, 2016

Indian Startups Need a Wake-up Call: Naren Gupta

Lack of focus on long-term benefits among founders and funders is hampering the growth of a healthy ecosystem

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Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jun 1, 2016

Why We Invested in Clover

We’re very excited to announce investment of Nexus Venture Partners in Clover.

Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Mar 11, 2016

The Future of Free Online Horizontal Classifieds — Winner Takes All

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…

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Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Feb 14, 2016

Uber for Hotel Rooms — Is it really feasible to give Service Levels like an Uber?

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…

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Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jul 27, 2016

When is the right time to exit?

Quick recap of recent M&A — Yahoo sold for broadly 1/10th the price that Microsoft offered several years ago, Jabong sold for broadly 1/10th the price that was being discussed with global e-commerce majors a few years ago.

Given the recent M&A activity both globally and…

Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jul 25, 2016

Don’t be afraid to fail early

I was speaking to an entrepreneur in our portfolio who was going through a major pivot and asked him how he was feeling given the last few months of dealing with the business model change, jittery investors, confused employees, etc. We believe in the entrepreneur and continue…

Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jul 8, 2016

Tips for building a healthier startup

As the saying goes, Great companies are built in tough times. There is good reason for this. When there is an unforgiving financing environment, smart companies tend to focus a lot more on costs, more emphasis is put on generating that extra dollar of revenue for…

Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Mar 2, 2016

Valuation Fluctuations in Large Private Companies is Noise — No need to Panic!

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…

Nexus Venture Partners in Conversation with Nexus

Jun 13, 2016

Nexus backed Arkin to be acquired by VMware

VMware, a global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced today…

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