Ask any maker who’s been through it – fundraising is hard. In some cases, outright brutal. Still, it’s a necessary evil for those wanting to build and scale large companies. Many household brands you see today likely wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for some outside help.

That’s not to say lifestyle and bootstrapped companies can’t be successful. In fact, we’ve seen plenty prove external funding isn’t the only way to build a business. Just last year the biggest-ever exit by a bootstrapped business happened. Hint: it’s MailChimp, which sold for a whopping $12B to Intuit.

If you’re in the process of raising a round or are thinking about it, we’ve got some resources you may want to check out.

ScaleUp features fundraising templates and resources you need, in ClickUp.

Fundraising Template 2.0 includes an investor CRM, pitch deck content builder, templates for your email communication, and a due diligence checklist as part of a Notion template.

Venture Roof is a collection of fundraising guides that consists of a 20+ investor list, 500+ accelerators, and 7k+ start-up advisors.

Funden™ is a fundraising platform that helps you perfect your pitch, target qualified investors, and receive warm intros to a global network of 500+ partner VCs.

Fundraising Questions is a curated collection of 120+ questions VCs will ask you and that you can ask them.

deck.rocks uses GPT-3 to generate pitch decks from one-liner ideas.

And if you’ve already got the cash in the bank, check out how this company is helping founders get more from their investors.

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Listen up, workaholics. It’s time to rest.