Start-Up School fills a void that most entrepreneurs will have in the very beginning of their new adventure. You can’t know everything immediately, and you’re going to make mistakes. That’s inevitable. But, we feel that serving as a mentor to a new entrepreneur will allow us to point out problem areas before they become crippling, and also share our experience of succeeding, failing, blowing things up, and starting over.
Every entrepreneur feels alone in the beginning, no matter how many people she’s surrounded herself with or how large her office may be. We want Start-up School and our mentoring relationship with that entrepreneur to be a source of strength and comfort, and a value-add to a thriving new business.
A successful mentoring relationship requires a few things to remain valuable to the parties involved:
- Mutual trust
- Mutual caring
- Freedom to voice opinions
- Truth
- Availability
- A desire to see the other person succeed in their role
Entrepreneurs benefit from having a mentor in many ways, but here is a big one: We ask questions that may not have been asked yet, prompting answers that lead to more questions, whose answers hopefully point the way to success. It's hard to get that interaction while working away, with your head down, stressing about paying bills, and trying to time your next Tweet. This is how we envision Start-Up School helping our "students."
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