For all you entrepreneurs out there, the three cash related numbers you need to be on top of are current cash balance, cash burn rate, and months of runway.

对于所有的企业家来说，必须掌控好的3个数字是：当前现金余额，每月平均烧钱量，剩余的“起飞”时间。

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Feeling the pain from the initial credit squeeze last year and fearing worse to come, the firm cut its workforce by 30% this year and reduced its cash burn rate by half.

去年它就受到信贷紧缩的困扰，现在麻烦可能越来越大，该公司今年已经裁员30%，将它的现金净支出量减少了一半。

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At that burn rate, GM could effectively run short of cash next summer, without even taking into account further sales declines.

按照这个消耗速度，通用汽车明年夏季就会出现现金短缺，这还没有考虑未来销量进一步下降的因素。

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After the company jettisoned its medical operations, employees have been reduced down to only nine people, so the cash burn rate is extremely low.

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The company struggled to IPO but got public in late 2010 with a major valuation haircut (fraction of cash invested) as the only way to feed a very high burn rate supporting its formulation improvement for a generic migraine drug.

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