Want to make sure your numbers are telling you the truth? Book a free 15-minute startup financial health check. Burn rate gets described a lot of ways — “how fast you’re losing money,” “your monthly cash outflow” — and most of those descriptions are close enough to be useful and vague enough to cause problems. […]
Benjamin Abiade
September 17, 2026
How to Calculate Runway Get your runway calculated properly—talk to 8cast. Runway is the most important number in your company that almost nobody calculates correctly. Not because the math is hard. It’s genuinely one division problem: cash on hand divided by net burn. The mistakes happen in what founders plug into those two variables — […]
Benjamin Abiade
September 17, 2026
Startup Financial Planning: Burn Rate, Cash Flow, Runway, Revenue Projections Talk to 8cast about getting a real handle on your numbers. Most founders don’t have a financial planning problem. They have a financial vocabulary problem. Burn rate, cash flow, runway, revenue projections — these get thrown around in board meetings and investor updates like everyone’s […]
Benjamin Abiade
September 17, 2026
An investor asked me about my burn rate. I gave them the wrong number. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s what happens when founders are running businesses without understanding the financial language investors use. Burn rate and runway aren’t just accounting terms; they are what investors use to determine whether you’re in control of your business. […]
Benjamin Abiade
August 2, 2026