Role of Mentor in the start-up journey

 Introduction- 

A mentor is a trusted one who guides you in your start-up journey, the mentor can counsel you wherever required, and he is the key person for the start-up or business journey, any senior person, trainer, professor, or teacher, who is working in your area, entrepreneur, or consultant can be your mentor.

Mentors can give insights about your idea, they can share the already available research and facts about it, which will save your time and effort in the assessment and evaluation of the idea.

Let’s see what roles and responsibilities you can expect from the mentor or guide-

To Share his/her work experience –

 Mentors should share their experience with the start-up holder, and what he knows about the start-up and the product, market analysis, etc. Mentors can help to build a good brand name and also they can bring good trustworthiness about the product and process. They will share their journey and how they reached the high point of success.

To share the startup Plans and strategies –

Mentor’s prime role is to help the startup holder in developing different plans and roadmaps – to develop the; long-term and short-term objectives and vision of his or her company and operational plans. They should help startup owners to develop marketing and sales strategies, disruption strategies, and possible contingencies. They should also help the startup owners in developing a roadmap for customer complaint management and quick response policy etc.

In general, they can give a clear idea about the startup concept and how to go ahead with his/her product.

Mental and Disciplinary Support

Mentors are good counselors hence they have to play this role also like motivating the startups in their critical times, if they feel underestimated due to any reason, they should aware the startups about the good time they will get by keeping little patience. They should also help the startups in developing good culture and practices and ethics, they should bring professionalism and discipline to the startups  

Networking Skills

Mentors are full of networking skills so they should teach the startups how to develop contacts, what are the ways methods of developing the contacts and inform them about the dos and don’ts to be followed while developing the networks. They must share the importance of networking and how it can help them to open other opportunities.  

Benefits of taking guidance from Mentors  

Taking help and support from Mentors will definitely move your startup to the next level of success because they know the practical side of your idea, they can imagine your startup and find out different strategies so that it can be successful.

While selecting any mentor first find out what is their background and how many years, they are dealing with the concept in which you are interested. To find out how much you can match your nature and comfort with him, you can approach any organization or any other body where many mentors and freelancers are registered.

In summary, I can mark that, Mentor is having a vital role in making or breaking any startup hence,  it’s your turn to select him wisely.

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