On average GM burned through $88 million each day of last year. That means that 44 start-up companies could have been funded with $2 million each day. This is around the total number of total start-ups funded each year by the entire Boston VC community. It also means that instead of funding the smashing Buick Lucerne and his brothers and sisters, over 10,000 innovative start-up companies could have been born in 2008.