TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Over the past year, VCs have been quick to commit to diversity, with 40% of firms putting D&I strategies in place. When investors spend time at an accelerator, they listen to brainstorming sessions, pitches and mentorship advice that includes a broad range of perspectives and opinions. Accelerators are hubs for diversity.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 23, 2019

Finance and accounting was the most common area of concern (39%), followed by IT and technology (31%), digital marketing (20%), and business planning and strategy (25%). And that doesn’t have to start and end with your favourite true-crime series.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

That’s the thing—startups in the initial stages need advice, feedback, and guidence a lot more than they need money upfront. If you can’t back it up with guidance and mentorship, we’re burning up a lot of cash, 500k at a time. That’s why participating in programs like TechStars make so much sense.

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Gust

JULY 15, 2012

For this, you should expect participation in monthly strategy and review meetings, and unlimited access via phone or email for questions, mentoring, and advice. It is more of a mentorship role, and its members have no fiduciary responsibility to the company or its stakeholders. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And often it is hard to motivate people to take on big tasks like strategy re-evaluations because everybody is busy doing investment work. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

The main lesson was conceptualizing a massive idea into an actionable business strategy. Extensive research was involved in understanding the problem, target audience, and go-to-market strategy. It was truly a full-circle moment, and I am grateful for the valuable connections and mentorships I found through this program.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

A copywriter who knows brand strategy, understands and appreciates graphics and can advise you on sales and web design , on the other hand… They’re in short supply. I didn’t hog my skills and knowledge When I get on a call with a potential new client, I don’t hold back any advice?—?even My only advice here is to trust your gut.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By joining 1776, members access the knowledge, mentorship, capital, markets, and talent they need in order to scale. Communication Strategies. Jennifer is the CEO of 1776, a community of entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving complex problems and work to revitalize cities along the Northeast Corridor in the process.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Garrett built Twitter’s communications team and helped the company develop a marketing, public affair and government relations strategy. He also advised the Obama White House on digital strategy and communications, Slack, and created two other communications consultancies. Over 200 people are in the community to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Mentorship. But if you don’t think through your long-term strategy you can open yourself up to a host of problems that kill companies: Spending money too quickly and running into cashflow traps. Startup Advice' Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Reviewing financial & operational performance.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

To understand the importance of mentorship for startup businesses, we gathered insights from 16 experienced CEOs, founders, and industry experts. They can identify pitfalls, recommend marketing and sales channels, and give feedback on strategy and tactics. That’s where mentors come in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I worked nearly a decade as a consultant – first building large scale IT systems and then doing strategy consulting. They speak of “my CEO’s.&# They talk about how this company failed because the management team didn’t listen to my advice and that one succeeded because we helped point them in the right direction.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

For over a decade, Biggar says, he has been an active participant in Bookface, recently helping multiple companies with financial and relationship advice on co-founder break-ups. Most recently, Medium lost half its staff in July after a strategy shift and an internally criticized culture memo.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Beier Cai, co-founder & CTO, Greg Gunn, co-founder & CEO, Tiffany Jung, VP, Strategy & Ops Image Credits: Commit. They raised money, but their biggest challenge was getting an engineer to join them,” Gunn explained. In addition, as Gunn noted, “hiring at early-stage startups sucks.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score. Mentorship: Having access to someone with much greater experience is of tremendous value to a first-time entrepreneur. Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund. So I immediately felt like I had a partner whom I could call for sensitive advice on topics where there aren’t many sources of input or mentorship.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 3, 2022

With the right mentorship and advice of seasoned angels, we intend to scale up quickly and grow our client base by 5x by the end of this financial year,” said Mr. Sidhartha Kumar Bhimania, Co-founder of Omnivio. A part of the raised funds will also be used towards partnerships and building an experienced & agile team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Do you value their mentorship and advice? Ask how was their experiences working with them, if they helped them in the next round or not, how was their mentorship, and if they micromanaged or not. Founders should explore all their options at the same time, waiting is not a good game strategy here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Local means more hands-on mentorship. I had the former head of Oracle, UK, Philip Crawford , on my first board and I found his advice and experience invaluable. If you’re amazingly successful and are a billion dollar valuation then you can command more of their time and you can ask a bigger name and being local matters less.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I didn’t want to do a big commute, so– Yelp was a good fit there, and I just had such good mentorship that I wanted to come back full-time. Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. It really only takes one.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses. They help users navigate away from assumptions or use of outmoded data to drive their marketing strategy. FutureBank.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Jai Malik, Venture Partner at Republic and ex-corporate Scout for Tata Communications, shares advice on becoming a Scout: “ I think the most important thing they saw was that I was open to learning whatever it took to get the job done. Offer career advice. I think that’s pretty standard with other positions.

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