Having a mentor gives a great advantage for every entrepreneur, who needs guidance and support through their entrepreneurial journey, but finding the right mentor is what truly can make the cooperation meaningful, successful, and fruitful. How to know if the mentor will be right for you, you may wonder? To help you answer this question, here we have collected for you three main pillars of a successful startup mentoring to look for.  

The Right Match – it is give-and-take!

Don’t expect one mentor to do it all for you. Finding a mentor, who can guide you through all of the paths of entrepreneurship – from helping you to expand your network through their connections through giving you valuable financial advice to helping you to handle the emotional hardship of entrepreneurship, – is almost impossible. All the people, who have the right expertise, knowledge and willingness to share them with an entrepreneur, are very busy and are approached by many young and ambitious people (like you, for example), who want to be mentored. So, when you choose a mentor, make sure that you will get from them what you need, but that you also will be able to satisfy their expectations and to justify their time.

Vision matters!

Before you start approaching people with the idea of asking their mentoring, it is important that you have clear vision about your expectations, about your business and your goals. You must look for people, who share the same vision as you do, if you want to establish on-going salutary relationship. Be compelling, be passionate and be honest when you pitch a potential mentor and you will succeed in getting the right person for your business on board.

Valuable personality traits

Having a mentor is not enough if you are not making the most of this relationship. To maximize the effect of this communication, it is important that you instinctively click and understand each other effortlessly, which requires that you both have personality traits that can complement the whole experience. There are many essential personality traits that entrepreneurs should look for in mentors, such as enthusiasm, passion, excellent communication and listening skills, approachability and responsiveness, and, most importantly willingness to share and aim to help people grow and succeed.