Talking about IR team impact map

Risks and Opportunities What does an IR person do? If you ask an AI engine what an Investor Relations (IR) person does, you’ll get a textbook answer like: “The Investor Relations team manages communication between corporate management and investors, analysts, and the financial community, ensuring accurate and effective communication of financial standing and strategic direction,…

Dashboards Are Dead! Long Live Dissonance

For decades, data visualization dashboards have been a cornerstone of decision-making. Tools like PowerBI, Tableau, and others have become ubiquitous across industries, promising real-time insights into KPIs, trends, and performance metrics. Yet, in practice, dashboards often become overwhelming collections of graphs and tables, making it difficult for users to focus on what truly matters. The…

Mostly Multiples 7/21: How Much Revenue Do You Need to IPO?

This Week’s Valuation Benchmarks for Operators Plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately with Planful. Planful’s robust financial performance management platform empowers teams like yours to achieve peak financial excellence across every corner of your business. What sets Planful apart? With quick implementation and minimal IT involvement, you can get started in weeks, ensuring seamless engagement across…

Is the Magic Number a bad party trick?

Support for Mostly metrics comes from Aleph, the single source of truth for financial data. Accelerate FP&A and make better decisions using the tool you love the most—spreadsheets. Before we make the numbers dance, make sure to check out this week’s Run the Number’s Podcast with Sinohe Terrero, the CFO of Envoy. We talk about why CFOs should actually…

How top tech companies measure Net Dollar Retention Rate

Thanks to the data wizards at Virtua Research for taking me behind the curtain to pull some levers on their point in time SaaS time travel machine to write this piece! Check them out if you are in corporate finance and obsessed with benchmarking (like myself). Below you’ll find the official definitions for Net Dollar Retention Rate…

Conferences Grew Nearly 30% in 2022 But Sell-side Conferences Barely Budged

Conferences came roaring back in 2022, but bank=sponsored conferences grew less than 2%, according to data supplied by investor relations platform provider Virtua. Physical conferences resumed and virtual conferences waned. More conferences The number of conferences in 2022 tracked by Virtua’s StockConferenceCalendar service increased by 29% from 2021, achieving the highest level over the last six years….

Mostly made up: Growth adjusted gross profit per employee

First off, thanks to everyone who joined the “Mostly talent collective”. We had over 50 people join in the first week 🤯. The collective now includes candidates from companies like PwC, Bain, and McKinsey, all looking to join high growth startups🧠. So, of course, I had to take the good boy for ice cream🍨 to celebrate. If you’re…