Cash Runway Explained: Why Burn Rate Changes Everything

Summary

Hollow Point Trading shares a short explainer on why cash runway is a scenario, not a fixed expiration date. Using a hypothetical business with $12 million in cash, it shows how runway shifts from 12 months at $1 million in monthly net cash use to 8 months at $1.5 million, highlighting why changing burn rates matter.

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Cash Runway Explained: Why Burn Rate Changes Everything
Cash runway is a scenario, not an expiration date. Imagine a hypothetical business has twelve million dollars of available cash and uses one million dollars of net cash per month. Holding that rate constant gives twelve months of runway. If net monthly cash use rises to one point five million dollars, the same cash lasts eight months. If it fall...

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