On average, their burn rate implies they have capital for about 20 months, less than the 30 months that most venture capitalists are warning founders to prepare for.

平均而言，他们的资金消耗率意味着他们的资金可以维持大约 20 个月，少于大多数风险资本家警告创始人要准备的 30 个月。

Although private companies are not required to disclose such numbers, indications are that their " burn rate" , the speed at which they spend money they have raised, is lower, at least at younger startups.

尽管私营公司不需要披露这些数字，但有迹象表明， 它们的“烧钱率” ，即他们花掉筹集到的资金的速度，至少在年轻的初创公司中是这样。

A gutting co-founder divorce, a rotating door of executive turnover, maddening and expensive flights into shiny new objects and distracting ideas, often driven by hypomania, and a whopping cash flow burn rate that at times reached five million dollars a month.

令人沮丧的联合创始人离婚，高管人员流动的旋转门，疯狂而昂贵的飞行到闪亮的新物品和分散注意力的想法，通常是由轻度狂躁症驱动的，以及每月高达 500 万美元的巨额现金流消耗率。

Even at a burn rate of $4m a month, more than half would have enough to tide them over for three years, before factoring in cash remaining from previous financing rounds and any profits they may have made.

即使以每月 400 万美元的消耗率计算，在将前几轮融资剩余的现金和他们可能赚取的任何利润考虑在内之前， 超过一半的人也足以度过三年。

That means that they just have to start slashing costs and VCs are saying, Look, you have to reduce your burn rate, you're spending so much per month, people are often a big expense to start looking at, see.

这意味着他们必须开始削减成本， 而风投们说，看，你必须降低你的烧钱率，你每个月要花这么多钱， 人们通常是一笔巨大的开支，开始看，看。