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The sleigh is out of fuel

The math says they can afford the bus to Bucaramanga one way. So the day becomes a liquidity sprint: discover Bancolombia opens a business account same day instead of the provider's two weeks, ask the padrino for an advance, sign an NDA that seals the numbers, and tell him plainly: this sleigh is about to fall.

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The accounting is Christmas-bare: “tenemos la plata apenas para el bus de ida” ▸ 2:13, so the choice is binary, open the company account or travel to Bucaramanga ▸ 2:26. The pantry agrees: “tenemos agua y crispeta” ▸ 7:54, and Carlos just wants to invite his family to eat on the 24th ▸ 7:38.

The unlock is noticing they had married a constraint. The Reisi provider’s business account is a slow, integration-grade process, but nothing forces the company’s own operating account through them ▸ 4:29. One hour of queueing at Bancolombia returns the answer that changes the week: papers in order means the business account opens the same day ▸ 6:08, “fuimos de dos semanas para un día” ▸ 6:16. With that in hand they ask the padrino directly: if the account opens tomorrow, can you advance part of the investment, and he says yes ▸ 6:33. The framing they used deserves the record: “panita, se nos acabó el combustible, este trineo se va a caer” ▸ 8:26.

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Two structural pieces close the day. The SAFE-style conversion gets explained to the padrino, invest in Luar now, it flows to Reisi when Reisi exists ▸ 3:28. And an NDA is signed: no exact figures, no strategy details, not even the name of his company ▸ 6:43, which means this diary’s future entries will say “recibimos una inversión” and stop there. The homework list is mundane and real: a re-issued Cámara de Comercio because the old one expired ▸ 10:38, and a signature rule to choose, where requiring two signers strands whoever stays behind when the others leave the country, so any one of the three can withdraw ▸ 11:34

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