Comments on: A Good Mentor Is A Must For Every StartUp

By: Articles about Investors in Startups as of September 4, 2009

Articles about Investors in Startups as of September 4, 2009 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:47:32 +0000

[...] an incubator takes some of the pressure off and helps you go from whiteboard to alpha release. A Good Mentor Is A Must For Every StartUp – genystartup.com 09/04/2009 At this stage of development, my start-up is starting to take [...]

By: Start-up mentoring | Startup Monkey

Start-up mentoring | Startup Monkey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:52:32 +0000

[...] Early Stage Smarts, Emerging Companies, Startups, Tech Community I found a great post last week @ GenYstartup.com: As far as Start-ups are concerned, a Mentor is someone who has been in the industry for much [...]

By: genystartup

genystartup — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:36:22 +0000

Absolutely agree with you LouAnn. The experience they bring to the table helps your reduce then learning curve one would have had to go through as well. Enough can't be said of how valuable it is. People like Mark Andreessen of Netscape and even Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook worked closely with mentors to develop the start-ups.

By: LouAnn

LouAnn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:40:09 +0000

More great advice. I was just at an event for women in business, and they said having a mentor was a great differentiator for women succeeding as well. So the crux of the story is that having a mentor is very good. To get insight and direction early in your career is invaluable. I had several good mentors who were able to steer and advise where, on my own, there was no way I'd have that available to me. It was invaluable getting that bigger picture earlier in my career.