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New Funding For Custom Spreadsheets Puts Airtable At $2.5B Valuation

PYMNTS

Airtable , a spreadsheet startup, ended a funding round with a new valuation of $2.5 Thrive Capital led the $185 million round, while existing investors Benchmark and Coatue Management , among others, also participated. billion, according to Bloomberg. The effect was to more than double Airtable’s $1.1

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Kitces & Carl Ep 136: Should Internal Succession Plans Provide A G2 Discount For Lack Of Affordability?

Nerd's Eye View

Traditionally, a standard benchmark for advisory-firm sales has been 2X annual revenue; with many firms running at an average 25%–30% profit margin, this results in 7X–8X earnings valuations. However, firms with margins outside a traditional range might result in unrealistically high earnings multiples for the buyer.

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#FA Success Ep 339: Resetting The Business For Its Next Stage Of Growth After Hitting The 10-Year Capacity Wall, With Eric Roberge

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, in 2022, Eric and his wife Kali faced a tumultuous year the firm dipped from $600,000 to $500,000 of revenue run rate in just the first few months and because it coincided with the arrival of their first child they didn’t have the bandwidth and capacity to adapt, how, to help with capacity constraints, (..)

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1stdibs Notches $76M In Funding Round

PYMNTS

Other participating investors included prior backers Benchmark, Spark Capital and Index Ventures, according to reports. The company now reportedly has a valuation of more than $500 million and has taken in $170 million in venture capital funding. investments.

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How Private Equity Firms Can Manage Uncertainty With Scenario Modeling

Jedox Finance

Assets with strong fundamentals and low valuations create openings to new markets. Frequent structured communication on performance benchmarks and earning multiples, maintains investor confidence and stability. Many businesses are unprepared. Swift changes are forcing management to rethink operating models.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here. Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Large companies will have historical information to look back on.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

CFO News Room

First, it is important for firm owners to create a regularly scheduled process to reassess fees and communicate them to their clients. But by reassessing fees and communicating the advisor’s value and any fee changes to clients on a regular basis, firm owners can feel more confident that a fee increase will be successful!

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