How Do You Find A Great Mentor For Your Startup Venture?
Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by the One Million (1Mby1M) Global Virtual Accelerator
It is a well-known fact that a good mentor can help you short-circuit your entrepreneurial journey by many months, even years. But how do you find a great mentor?
Take a look at this cartoon to learn what mentors look for in the companies they advise.
Also, read my perspective on mentoring entrepreneurs: Mentoring Startups: 10 Lessons We Have Learned. This was written in 2013. Today, we have a community of ~500,000 people, over 50,000 have attended our free mentoring roundtables, and we’ve done over 350 of those. We have completely democratized entrepreneurship incubation, acceleration, and mentoring.
Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your options, and decide which idea to select.
Looking For Some Hands-On Advice?
For entrepreneurs who want to discuss their specific businesses with me, I’m very happy to assess your situation during my free online 1Mby1M Roundtables, held almost every Thursday. You can also check out my LinkedIn Learning course here, my Lynda.com Bootstrapping course here, and follow my writings here.
Photo credit: Pierre Natoli/Flickr.com.
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7 年Hi, Interesting reading. What do you think about the turn that Incubators will have to make because of concurrency. It seems that vertical-led accelerators will disappear, do you think that mentors will join accelerators that promote their knowledge and particular field ?
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7 年Sramana Mitra wrote another article on mentoring start-ups back in 2013 which I feel has quite a bit of truth in it (that is to say, much of it resonates with experiences I have had mentoring start-ups and the entrepreneurs who founded them): https://www.sramanamitra.com/2013/12/12/mentoring-startups-ten-lessons-we-have-learned/.