There is much more demand for companies that do not bring a burn rate with them.
The company cut its burn rate by 60%, Marino says and has 165 employees, down from 225 previously.
Four suitors pursued Tularik, which at the time needed a well-heeled partner due to a high cash-burn rate.
Clients expect on-demand, self-service access to the status of projects, the burn rate of the budget, and so on.
So, IPO companies need to carefully budget their equity usage and manage to a declining burn rate and overhang over time.
"This is a company that does not have to worry about a burn rate, " says Steve Brozak, an analyst at Vanguard Capital.
The so-called "burn rate" is particularly important in this election because so many states have moved their primaries to earlier calendar dates.
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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And since a candle's burn rate is fairly consistent, they were often used to tell time--some candles even had hour measurements marked into the wax.
John Kerry, had a burn rate of only about 32% by this point in 2003, according to the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonprofit organization that tracks money and politics.
As long as you are not borrowing or getting investors involved you can watch the burn rate and think through the payoff if things actually work out with a couple of your horses.
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So one of the things we're doing with DotSpots that's quite different is that we're trying to keep our burn rate as low as possible, trying to keep the ownership in the hands of our employees.
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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While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.
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Other foods have different ways of increasing the rate at which we burn calories (otherwise known as the metabolic rate).
Because agencies are strictly prohibited from using a curve to distribute the highest ratings, the best are being furloughed at the same rate as the burn-outs.
The 400PT is a heavy monster that won't slide around the floor and it has cutting-edge electronics that measure heart rate, calorie burn and power output by the watt.
Some creatures move faster than others, some see farther, and some burn sugar at a higher metabolic rate than their rivals.
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They are employed in furniture, carpeting, bedding, textiles, electronics and plastics to reduce the risk of ignition and slow down the rate at which things burn.
But sadly, as your heart rate rises and that familiar burn permeates your muscles, the self-assurance you seek remains elusive, replaced instead by a silent war that wages within your brain.
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