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029 — NEXUS: Marketplace Platform Economics

Lead NEXUS Servicios, a two-sided marketplace connecting service providers with clients across Latin America. Navigate 4 phases of platform growth: Launch & Seeding, Liquidity & Retention, Monetization, and Scale & Defense.

12 rounds Executive

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About this simulation

Lead NEXUS Servicios, a two-sided marketplace connecting service providers with clients across Latin America. Navigate 4 phases of platform growth: Launch & Seeding, Liquidity & Retention, Monetization, and Scale & Defense. Optimize marketing spend, supply/demand balance, pricing, quality investments, and geographic expansion.

Master the chicken-and-egg problem, network effects, multi-homing risk, and regulatory challenges. Your decisions shape platform health, revenue, and defensibility.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 12 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Marketing Budget ($0-200k)
  • Supply vs Demand (0=All Demand, 100=All Supply)
  • Take Rate (5-25%)
  • Quality Investment ($0-100k)
  • Expansion Investment ($0-150k)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Final Platform Health Assessment

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Digital Business.

  • Business Model Innovation & Design
  • Blue Ocean Strategy & Market Creation
  • Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Management

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