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โWhat did you like most about the course?โ One student simply wrote: โIra.โ ๐ฅน
That little answer made me so happy. I recently taught a three-day course on finance and fundraising in the Berlin area, and I had so much fun with the students. I loved watching their interest develop over those days as they connected the topics to their own business ideas and became more involved in the discussions. I get a little nerdy about finance. I can get very excited about what a financial plan tells us, what happens when we change an assumption, or why the amount yo
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โWhat did you like most about the course?โ One student simply wrote: โIra.โ ๐ฅน
That little answer made me so happy. I recently taught a three-day course on finance and fundraising in the Berlin area, and I had so much fun with the students. I loved watching their interest develop over those days as they connected the topics to their own business ideas and became more involved in the discussions. I get a little nerdy about finance. I can get very excited about what a financial plan tells us, what happens when we change an assumption, or why the amount yo
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Oct 32 min read
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What a privilege to welcome Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz to BBIS. A heartfelt thank you to the BBIS Foundation and Eve Bรผchner for making this visit possibleโand to Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz for so graciously giving us his time. He came across as well-read, humble, kind, and remarkably composed as he answered questions about both his political career and his personal life. ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ Enormous credit must go to the BBIS student team. They organized
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Sep 182 min read
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Insights from finance coaching
Fundraising isnโt only a financial decision. Itโs a team philosophy. Coaching founders through fundraising isnโt only about financial decisions. Itโs also about team philosophy. One of the best conversations I heard founders have recently during a coaching session wasn't about their pitch or how much they wanted to raise. It was about what would happen if they didn't agree on the fundraising approach. What if one founder wants to raise while the other wants to bootstrap long
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Sep 91 min read
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