Investors pay close attention to the burn rate because it helps them understand how long a company's funds will last before it needs to raise additional capital. This is important because startups ...

What Is The Burn Rate? Burn rate means the rate at which a company expends its cash reserves or funding. It is essentially a measure of how quickly a business is “burning” through its available ...

You check your bank balance, do a mental run-rate calculation, and realize you’ve got maybe eight months of oxygen left.

On a recent investor call, the CEO calmly said, “We only have two months of runway left.” The fact that we were on Zoom couldn’t hide the investors’ reactions — a few faces turned decidedly pale. As ...

We can readily understand why investors are attracted to unprofitable companies. For example, although Amazon.com made losses for many years after listing, if you had bought and held the shares since ...