Besides working on the ‘’Family office data generation’’ I have also spend a few hours going through the administrative paperwork for the students who are planning to come to Barcelona for the internship. I told the students clearly that it is very important to get all the paperwork done, however, not to make any payments yet. As the situation is new to all of us, and yet we cannot fully assure them that the office will open at the end of the or next month.
After I have gotten my part assigned I started to collect the date asked from me for the single-family office event. I was very surprised when after a couple of hours or research I could only find approximate 5/6 companies across Poland, a country with almost 49 million inhabitants. So I did a little reading on the polish business newspapers and started to assume that since the single-family office industry as recently as begin of the 21st century entered the polish market only a few can be found. However, after sharing the online file with my supervisor and explaining to him that I struggle with collecting data for this specific industry, he emailed me back with some crucial tricks and ways to keep everything organized and how not to miss out on any information. Such as to look up specific industries headquarters by city name, instead of by country as a whole. The wise lesson for me today was to ask for the available help instead of stubbornly continuing. In the screenshot below an example of lead-generation can be found.
Also lately I am feeling a bit strange, I am very great full that my internship continues, that my family is safe and healthy, and that my friends are all okay. Yet every day I feel like something bad is about to happen and it really pushes me out of my comfort zone. It also affects my motivation for a thing like keeping up the daily reflective journal and working out.
FGolinski blog on 2020 internship in Barcelona 