Mashauri Mentors
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
WHY LISTEN TO ME?
- Deloitte coach lead
- Strategy and decision coaching
- Mashauri co-founder
- Mashauri research
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OUR RESEARCH: FOUNDERS WANT EXTERNAL ADVICE
- Technical: legal, finance, technology
- Support: funding, decisions,
- Process: focus, prioritisation, methodology
- Examples: cases, models, success stories
- Challenge and objective input
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WHY SHOULD FOUNDERS SEEK MENTORS?
- Technical (legal, finance) and network (funding) : NO
- Experience (industry, startups, management)
- Specific guidance (direction, process, objectives, cases)
- Non-specific guidance (challenge, questions, decisions, review)
- Sounding board, idea testing, motivator, expressing fears
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WORK OUT WHAT YOU NEED
- Skills required
- Level of trust
- Type of experience
- Willingness to pay
- (Before you start to search)
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DONT'S
- Ignore advice
- Argue (clarification is better)
- Be too agenda-driven
- Do all the talking
- Run over allocated time
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DO
- Get to know your mentor
- Seek references
- Agree rough boundaries
- Set expectations (2 way)
- Give feedback (and thanks) to mentor
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DO
- Be proactive (dates, questions, agenda)
- Run the admin (actions, calendars, logistics)
- Keep mentors involved (minimally)
- Be honest and open
- Return the favour (what do they need)
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MASHAURI OFFER
- Mentor for every paid programme
- Q&A to mentors and community
- Guiripreneurs: first 5 applications get mentor on free programme
- If you launch a venture, do the work, give feedback
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Do you need a mentor?
"Mashauri has provided a valuable contribution so far to me and my business partner for our new startup. Despite we thought (sic) to have a very good and potential idea, we realised that we did not have a structural process in place, as well as a validated business model to use. We asked Simon for assistance to go through the startup process from definition to execution and he has helped us to think strategically step by step during the venture. I am very happy about what we have achieved so far and now I feel more confident on bringing our idea to market."
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