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Cash Shot Clock

Cash balance divided by average monthly burn. How many months you have to act.

The cash shot clock is the simplest vital number: cash on hand divided by average monthly burn. The result is months of runway.

Run it every Monday. If the number is shrinking, you're bleeding time. If it's growing, you're buying time. Everything else is downstream.

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