Mentoring


Recent Mentoring Articles

An SBDC Serving a Largely Rural Territory

North Central Kansas Small Business Development Center serves 11 counties with a population of about 125,000 people.  Read more

An SBDC That Turned Things Around

The Maryland Small Business Development Center, Central Region went from being one of the worst performing SBDCs in Maryland to one of the best.  Read more

An SBDC for First-Time Federal Contractors

The District of Columbia Small Business Development Center helps business owners save time and avoid frustration when applying for federal contracts.  Read more

The World's Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs

The founders of the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder, Colorado, are fostering intense camaraderie among entrepreneurs who hope to solve the world's problems.  Read more

The Value of Mentors

What I learned from Bob Freed, Robert Noyce, Jerry Sanders, and Don Valentine.  Read more

How to Manage Managers

Your company's managers are smart, committed, and passionate. How can you make sure they perform to their potential?  Read more

How Incubators Speed the Start-up Process

Initiatives such as Y Combinator in San Francisco and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado, provide more than just funding.  Read more

The Power of Mutual Mentorship

Agatha Kessler, CEO of Fentress Architects, talks about how her firm trains its employees to mentor one another.  Read more

Start-Up Help at Your Local Library

More than 2,400 entrepreneurs have participated in the Brooklyn Public Library's “PowerUp!” program since 2003.  Read more

How to Start a Mentoring Program

Mentoring uses the resources your company already has to improve employee satisfaction, develop leadership, and teach new skills. Here's how to start your co...  Read more

How to Find a Business Mentor

Whether you are just starting out or running a large company, it helps to have a mentor to whom you can turn with questions large and small.  Read more

A Non-Profit Trains Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs

Growing up in Ethiopia, Alfa Demmellash had no idea she would one day start a non-profit that trains entrepreneurs in low-income areas.  Read more

Goldman, Buffett to Aid Small Business

Two icons of bull-market Corporate America team up to finance and support 10,000 small businesses.  Read more

Entrepreneurs Participate in 'Mentoring Madness'

Snoop Dogg advises young entrepreneurs to "study what's missing" in the marketplace.  Read more

The Start-up Guru

Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think  Read more

Empowering Employees 

Delegating responsibility can energize your staff. Here are five things you need to know.   Watch video

Post Office, SBA Offer Entrepreneurship Videos

The Small Business Administration and the Postal Service have created a video-on-demand resource for entrepreneurs with advice and inspiration from successfu...  Read more

Remembering Eugene Kleiner

Remembering Eugene Kleiner, the pioneering venture capitalist and co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers  Read more

The Uber Mentor

If you needed life-changing advice and could make only one phone call, who would be on the other end? For some, the answer is Peter Drucker.  Read more

Finding a Mentor

Everyone needs someone to look up to. Here Inc.com offers its best resources for finding, choosing, and working with mentors.  Read more

Hands On: Mentors For Hire

New business owners hire experienced mentors in their fields to show them the ropes.  Read more

Finding the Right Mentor for You

Some entrepreneurs may make it look easy to talk your way into the good graces of a great role model who will help you grow your business, but it isn't alway...  Read more

The Mentors

Kent Sutherland solicited Wal-Mart's Sam Walton as his business mentor 18 years ago and has prospered ever since. Here's where to find a mentor and the great...  Read more

Mentors for Life

If you're pursuing top business leaders as your only mentors, one entrepreneur suggests that you stop to take a look at the broader view -- mentors from your...  Read more

Four Steps to Building Better Businesspeople

Virtually all employees have the power to improve company performance if they understand how. Leader can reduce financial phobia in the ranks with these four...  Read more

Mentoring Made Easy

An expert on mentoooooooring shares the secrets to landing the perfect mentor.  Read more

Resources for Mentor Seekers

If you can't find a mentor on your own, there are many places you can turn to for mentor "matchmaking."  Read more

Inside Goldman’s $500 Million Small Business Initiative

Dina Powell, the executive in charge of the program, fills in some of the details.  Read more