Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 6)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev Prashant: If you have to assign a monetary number to the full range of services that incubator provides, how much would it be per company? Nandini: Less than $100,000. Prashant: Can you share revenue numbers of companies before and after incubation?

Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 5)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev Prashant: Let’s get into the details of the four-month program you mentioned earlier. Once you accept the company for the BAP, what are your next steps? Nandini: We do not follow a fixed curriculum. The engagement is customized and specific to each company. We spend an average

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 4)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev Prashant: Out of all pitches you receive, how many deserve a closer look? Nandini: We go through all of them, and based on past data, I can say that we have an initial interaction with at least 50% of them. Sometimes, it will be a great founder

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 2)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev [In the second part of the interview, Nandini and Prashant continue their discussion of how The Morpheus was started, and Nandini outlines the group’s philosophy.] Nandini: After Seventymm bought Madhouse in 2007, it was a hindsight thought that both Sameer and I had that if there were

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 1)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev After a few hiccups, it was great to finally meet Indus Khaitan, partner at The Morpheus, an incubator out of India, face-to-face over lunch. We were talking to Khaitan as part of a new series, an exploration of how business incubators are doing their part in advancing

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