initial investment

基本解释

How much is my initial investment in order to enter this business?
爲了進入這個行業我的初始投入資金是多少？
If the market went against you, you’d lose even more than your initial investment.
如果市場和你對著乾，你就會失去甚至比你初始投資更多的資金。
In a model where servers are reserved in advance, an initial investment is required to secure specific servers in certain areas to minimize the hourly usage of virtual machines (VMs).
在提前預畱服務器的模式中，必須有一個初始投入以保護某些區域的特定服務器，從而最小化虛擬機 (VM) 每小時的使用量。

If the technology works, it could get future payouts totaling 20 times its initial investment.
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Now, your goal should be to get the business profitable with just the initial investment.
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At 12%, you could double your initial investment every six years (72 divided by 12).
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