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burn rate investment & finance definition
A
measure of how quickly a company will exhaust its cash or available liquidity,
used frequently in the venture capital industry. Burn rate is calculated by
taking the total amount of cash on hand and dividing it by the monthly
expenditures to see how many months the company could stay in business. The
term was often used during the Internet boom
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