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    A mentor is a trusted, experienced advisor who invests time to listen, offer advice and opportunities to help mentees succeed. Mentoring ensures knowledge and experience is transferred from mentor to mentee over time through personal interaction. A good mentor is involved in their own successful business and can devote time to broaden a mentee's understanding. They help mentees stay focused, think through strategies, and get through difficult times. The document provides tips for finding and choosing mentors, such as understanding what kind of guidance is needed from a mentor and looking in local business groups and non-profits.

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    A mentor is a trusted, experienced advisor who invests time to listen, offer advice and opportunities to help mentees succeed. Mentoring ensures knowledge and experience is transferred from mentor to mentee over time through personal interaction. A good mentor is involved in their own successful business and can devote time to broaden a mentee's understanding. They help mentees stay focused, think through strategies, and get through difficult times. The document provides tips for finding and choosing mentors, such as understanding what kind of guidance is needed from a mentor and looking in local business groups and non-profits.

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    A mentor is a trusted, experienced advisor who invests time to listen, offer advice and opportunities to help mentees succeed. Mentoring ensures knowledge and experience is transferred from mentor to mentee over time through personal interaction. A good mentor is involved in their own successful business and can devote time to broaden a mentee's understanding. They help mentees stay focused, think through strategies, and get through difficult times. The document provides tips for finding and choosing mentors, such as understanding what kind of guidance is needed from a mentor and looking in local business groups and non-profits.

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    A mentor is a trusted, experienced advisor who invests time to listen, offer advice and opportunities to help mentees succeed. Mentoring ensures knowledge and experience is transferred from mentor to mentee over time through personal interaction. A good mentor is involved in their own successful business and can devote time to broaden a mentee's understanding. They help mentees stay focused, think through strategies, and get through difficult times. The document provides tips for finding and choosing mentors, such as understanding what kind of guidance is needed from a mentor and looking in local business groups and non-profits.

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    Choosing Mentors

    - A mentor is a trusted and experience adviser who is interested in the success of the mentee.

    - He/She does this by investing time to be a sounding board, to listen and understand context, ask
    questions, give sound advice, offer alternative opinions, opening windows of opportunities and
    lessening risks of the mentee.

    Mentoring ensures that knowledge, experience, and hard-won insight transfers from one person to another
    through personal interaction over time. While your own great ideas are essential to your new business, with an
    experienced mentor at your side, you will have one of the most powerful assets any new businessperson can
    ever have: someone invested in you and your success. Here are a few key points on the vital role a good
    mentor can play in the success of an emerging entrepreneur, along with advice on choosing mentors wisely.

    1. What characteristics does a good mentor possess?


    Ideally, a mentor will not so much give advice as coach. An ideal mentor is someone actively
    involved in the direction of his or her own successful business. A good mentor should also be
    accessible — not all of the time, but he or she should be able to devote enough time to assisting
    you in truly broadening and deepening your understanding in ways you could not have done for
    yourself.

    2. What can a mentor help you accomplish?


    Your mentor can help you stay focused on your goals and hold you accountable to your vision
    for your company. A good mentor can help a fledgling entrepreneur think through strategies,
    crunch numbers, and create a business or marketing plan. His or her guidance can get you
    through rough times when your self-confidence may be waning, and show you new perspectives
    and pathways to success.

    3. How can you find the right mentor?


    You should select a mentor carefully. Make sure to understand exactly what you want your
    mentor to do. Do you need networking opportunities, introductions to great contacts, or advice
    on evaluating markets or developing your product? Different individuals will bring different sets
    of skills and varied perspectives to any mentoring experience, so you will need to know what
    your “ask” is.

    4. Where should you look for mentors?


    You can try local business and start-up networking groups as well as the leadership of
    community non-profit organizations to find mentors. Offer to work an event promoted by one of
    these groups, which can place you in proximity to industry leaders. Find a few people who are
    available to have brief meetings with you and see if you click with any of them as mentors.

    5. How can you get the most out of a mentoring experience?


    Be flexible enough to appreciate the many forms mentoring can take. You might read a book or
    watch a video by a well-known and successful entrepreneur, learning from him or her even if
    you will never meet.

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