initial investment

基本解释

How much is my initial investment in order to enter this business?
为了进入这个行业我的初始投入资金是多少？
If the market went against you, you’d lose even more than your initial investment.
如果市场和你对着干，你就会失去甚至比你初始投资更多的资金。
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).
在提前预留服务器的模式中，必须有一个初始投入以保护某些区域的特定服务器，从而最小化虚拟机 (VM) 每小时的使用量。

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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