Sound familiar?
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Fundraising happens in the two hours a day nothing else is on fire.
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Nobody else in the company knows the state of the round.
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Research before a call is a luxury, so you wing it.
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Follow-ups slip a week at a time until the thread is dead.
What you stop doing.
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Stop maintaining a tracker
The pipeline updates from your inbox while you are doing your actual job.
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Stop researching at 1am
A one-page dossier lands before the call, with the sponsor partner named.
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Stop writing from scratch
Drafts are ready in the morning. Editing takes minutes, not evenings.