VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The figure is below the heights of 2021 and early 2022 but above historical averages—representing a durable, positive trend in the industry. North American Venture investments totalled $39.7 billion in Q3 2022, down 53% year over year (YoY).

Founder 173

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country.

Singapore 164

Singapore Partner Asia North America 164

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

So the share price has been trending down for some time before popping after the IPO. They had a ‘ratchet’ which repriced their investment in the event of a down round to give them a 20% return. The interesting question for me is what this means for startup valuations more generally.

IPO 60

IPO Matching Ratchet Valuation 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The general trend toward using offers as you get deeper into the cart abandonment series reflects companies’ belief (or, hopefully, data) that many of the “easy” recoveries will occur without an offer. There are many more ways to ratchet up the conversion power of your abandoned cart emails. Second offer email + scarcity (e.g.,

eCommerce 112

eCommerce Email Ratchet Campaign 112

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The general trend toward using offers as you get deeper into the cart abandonment series reflects companies’ belief (or, hopefully, data) that many of the “easy” recoveries will occur without an offer. There are many more ways to ratchet up the conversion power of your abandoned cart emails. Second offer email + scarcity (e.g.,

eCommerce 67

eCommerce Email Ratchet Campaign 67

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2016

The way many companies are trying to sidestep this is by looking at jumping onto trends before other people do, in the hope of riding the wave and getting greater attention for their content than they otherwise would have.

PR 41

PR SEO Algorithm Ratchet 41

Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Some major game publishers are starting to produce games for mobile devices first and consoles second, which is a HUGE new trend in serious game development. This will bring the major gaming studios even more into the mobile landscape and the true gamers out of the woodwork. Mobile gaming is just getting started.

Mobile 48

Mobile Ratchet IPO Atlanta 48