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The rate at which a new company spends its initial capital.
‘the corporation lays off workers to cut burn rate’
‘Rane says one of his priorities is managing the burn rate.’
‘The projections should clearly identify the funding requirement, your cash burn rate, profitability details and the return to the equity investor or other finance provider.’
‘Unsettling in the best of cases, succession can get downright ugly when a crisis - missed quarterly projections, a flagging stock price, an unsustainable burn rate - prompts the change.’
‘Even last year, company executives could see the need to cut back an operation that had 1,700 employees and a cash burn rate of $700 million a year.’
‘Pegasus Research International's research further indicated that 51 Internet companies will use up their cash within the next 12 months, assuming the current burn rate.’
‘In politics, it is known as the burn rate - the speed at which a campaign spends the money it has raised.’
‘Indeed, the burn rate is the heartbeat of these young companies.’
‘If you want to know if a company is really in trouble, compare its burn rate with the working capital measured over the same time period.’
‘It also had an enormous marketing staff and a burn rate of $550,000 a month.’
‘Back in January 2000, our first order of business was to get enough funding to ensure a low burn rate.’
‘We are encouraging our companies to cut their burn rate and show a faster path to profitability.’
‘Looking at it from a financial standpoint alone, our burn rate is substantially lower than it would be if we were on either coast.’
‘‘We've cut our burn rate to compensate,’ he said.’
‘Lowering operating expenses will certainly reduce the burn rate and buy some time.’
‘‘Their burn rate is leading them to a point of running out of cash within the next 12-18 months,’ he says.’
‘The cash burn rate dropped from a whopping $200 million a month in mid-2000 to around $15 million a month today.’
‘The burn rate on ideas can be high; Rapp estimates that for every 10 or 12 ideas his team puts to the test, only 1 or 2 survive.’
‘We've considered mergers to the extent that they reduce our burn rate, diminish our overhead, and create further synergies for our business model.’
‘The burn rate is the amount of cash they spend funding their operation.’
‘Our burn rate is as predicted, and in the USA we are opening an office a week.’