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Startups measure success by their monthly burn rate

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In the startup ecosystem, bragging about how fast you lose funds is somehow considered a metric of aggressive growth. The burn rate calculates exactly how much venture capital a company incinerates every single month before they inevitably run out of runway and have to beg investors for another massive funding round.

Startups measure success by their monthly burn rate
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