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For those who didn't realize the difference between expenses and burn (I'd always equated them): "Your burn rate is the speed at which your cash balance is goi
by ISL 11y ago
For those who didn't realize the difference between expenses and burn (I'd always equated them):
"Your burn rate is the speed at which your cash balance is going down."
http://avc.com/2011/12/burn-rate/ http://avc.com/2011/12/burn-rate/
- timv 11y agoPart of the problem is that most startups run with zero revenue for the first few months (or longer). Generally speaking, if you have no revenue then burn == expenses. So for the period during which most founders are starting to learn about these terms, "burn" and "expenses" are indistinguishable. That tends to cause them to think of them as essentially the same thing for far longer than they should.