Burn Rate and Runway
Burn is the cash a company loses each month; runway is cash in the bank divided by burn, the number of months before the money is gone. A company raises when it has twelve to eighteen months of runway left, because a round takes three to six months and the last months are when a founder has least leverage. The first two numbers a venture investor asks for.
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