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In general, CBCs are at a nascent stage with various companies building across innumerable verticals. We believe CBCs are positioned to succeed provided companies are able to leverage community, ensure quality instructors with scale and maintain cohorts of highly motivated customers. Check out the deck below to understand how we look at the space and its future
If you've managed to get your hands on our cohort-based courses (CBC) teaser, you can skip all this text and jump right into the presentation. If you haven't seen the teaser around, these are just a few highlights
At Lightbox, we track education very closely. Given our focus on companies creating positive externalities of consumption, we believe education genuinely transforms livelihoods, especially when it is packaged the right way. We're excited about how edtech is transforming from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) designed for passive online content consumption to high-intent CBCs with tangible and oftentimes monetary outcomes. As we have said in our teaser, CBCs are time-bound, highly interactive community based courses addressing skill-based topics across various verticals with clear-cut incentives, leading to near-perfect completion rates. These courses can range from software engineering upskilling to learning how to bake a lemon meringue pie for your significant other.
In our universe, CBC companies can be bucketed into three categories: upskilling for employability, creator focused CBCs and vocational, passion skill CBCs. These can further be plotted across a spectrum of high to low technical skill delivery. We believe the greatest opportunity lies in the high technical skills category, given it has the most motivated customers who get placed through the platform with AOVs that far exceed CAC. This category also has the largest gap between the demand of enterprises and the skillset of human capital, which makes upskilling for employability the call of the hour.
In general, CBCs are at a nascent stage with various companies building across innumerable verticals. We believe CBCs are positioned to succeed provided companies are able to leverage community, ensure quality instructors with scale and maintain cohorts of highly motivated customers.
Check out the deck below to understand how we look at the space and its future. Also, if you’re building a CBC company or want to talk about edtech, please reach out to us
We spend a lot of time thinking about the changing nature of ownership. It’s amazing how much “stuff” most of us collect over time. And how little we actually use in everyday life. It makes you start questioning consuming and purchasing habits in general.
Chronic patients have no source of reliable information or network to rely on to help them manage their diseases. Doctors are short on time and pharmacies operate like dispensaries, dolling out pills alongside shampoo and mosquito patches. This is where Generico (now ZENOHealth) steps in. They currently runs a network of 40 pharmacies. These pharmacies sell pills but also provide a suite of preventive health services that give patients the solutions to managing their conditions.
Neo Banking has been one of the hottest sectors in the startup landscape globally for a few years and lately in India as well. Over $5BN have been poured into this sector in 2019 globally. We put together some thoughts on this trending sector
Social Commerce (or Interactive Commerce) is a philosophy toward online shopping that humanizes the robotic online shopping experience, applying insights and design approaches that have been more traditionally associated with gaming, social media, or entertainment platforms. We deep dive into this topic with success stories, models and key takeaways for this rapidly evolving sector and is going to be the defining experience of commerce this decade.
As we look to understand the opportunities in the job market, for this discussion we have broken down the labor force into three buckets – White Collar, Grey Collar and Blue Collar. It is estimated that close to 300 million workers (excluding agricultural workers) are in the Blue and Grey collar jobs in India and around 15-20% (50MM) of the workforce in white collar jobs.
1 in every 6th Indian suffers from some form of mental illness – the World Health Organisation estimates that India will suffer a $1 trillion economic loss due to unaddressed mental health conditions between 2012 and 2030. At Lightbox, we are in the business of understanding the Indian consumer and her problems, and then investing in the best solutions to counter these problems.
Why would Jio, a company that has rarely parted with ownership, agree to (or dare we say, actively seek out) partnerships and investments, and why now? What does this $20 BN mean for Jio, and how will these deals affect the broader technology market in India?
‘Pay Later’ is a product that will always be needed as it allows for instant gratification purchases and reduces guilt by not having to pay for everything today. The faster, frictionless and credit payment method gives the consumer a sense of trust in the platform to transact.
Franchising revolves around duplicating the franchisor’s business blueprint across different locations. This means that as a franchisor, you need far less capital with which to expand and your risk is largely limited to the capital you invest in developing your franchise. This investment is often less than the cost of opening one additional company-owned location. As industries are forced to take a step back and contemplate their business models, what will the future of franchising look like?
Each person behaves in a different way when it comes to investing their money, some prefer financial assets while some prefer physical assets, some prefer safe bets while others riskier. What about India? The wealth management industry in India is quite small plagued by a lack of education, awareness, and willingness to invest in equity investments.
NFTs make a significant case for tokenization of assets using smart contracts, as it will enable fluid value transfer in different spaces globally. A lot of NFT projects are currently tough to assess as the current excitement around this space has been fueled by the rally of cryptocurrencies and hype built around the overall space. As the space continues to grow, we will only be able to see if it succeeds once it moves past its early adopters.
The gaming experience has changed rapidly over the past decade. From Pay to Play (P2P) to Play to Earn (P2E) , tech has changed the way gamers play and companies monetise. As we witness continuous adoption of P2E games, we will see better experiences being built across all categories of gaming. Read on to learn about this evolution and the kind of economic impact blockchain gaming can make.
Did you know that India ranks second in global adoption of cryptocurrencies with over 50MM users that have invested in the asset. We see the number of people investing in Crypto increase exponentially over the coming years and with that the need to generate yield on their holdings. Take a look at the presentation below and write to us with your thoughts
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