mentoring Archives

6 Mentoring Resources for Women Small Business Owners

For female founders who face unique challenges (especially when trying to break into male-dominated industries), having a mentor could be the missing piece of the entrepreneurial success puzzle. Navigating the roadblocks to business success becomes...

byEric Goldschein

March 31, 2023

6 Reasons to Consider Hiring a Business Coach

This is the year. This, you have decided, is the year you skyrocket your business to great success. Congratulations! It’s a worthy resolution for the new year. But I’m here to make sure that instead of...

bySusan Guillory

June 27, 2022

Mentoring is at the Heart of Entrepreneurship

Teaching and mentoring is at the heart of entrepreneurship. As business owners, we're teaching our prospects how our company can help solve their problem. With our team, we're teaching and communicating our vision and how...

byJason Scott Montoya

January 31, 2022

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Valuable Mentoring Offered by SCORE (Episode 223)

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses an excellent resource for entrepreneurs who need free, high-quality coaching and mentoring: SCORE, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration....

byStartupNation

May 12, 2021

Minority-Owned Small Businesses Especially Impacted by COVID-19, Can Get Free Help From SCORE

COVID-19 has had a major impact on U.S. small businesses, especially Main Street establishments, such as retail stores and restaurants. Recent data published in the “SCORE Megaphone of Main Street: The Impact of COVID-19” data...

byBetsy Dougert

January 13, 2021

Why You Need to Go Back to the Beginning to Grow Your Business

It’s most every entrepreneur’s dream: your business is a success, and in a few short years, you’ve gone from being a lone freelancer to managing an ever-growing team of employees. But you soon find that...

byJulian Jakob Jost

May 11, 2019

How to Be a Mentor When You’ve Never Been One Before

Imagine someone you know fairly well approaches you. Maybe they confide how much they admire where your entrepreneurial career has taken you and expresses a desire to be like you someday. Perhaps they are pursuing...

byDeborah Sweeney

September 28, 2018

Culture Predictions: How to Build an Award-Winning Startup Culture

While every organization works hard toward meeting its business objectives, this year we will see workplaces taking a greater interest in promoting work-life integration along with emphasizing employees’ pursuit of goals outside of the office....

byRobert Glazer

February 16, 2018

The Importance of Prioritizing Diversity at Work

It is no secret that Silicon Valley has a workplace diversity problem. While this negative fact continues to trend, there is evidence that tech companies headquartered outside of the Bay Area are quietly showing them...

byBrian Siskind

May 13, 2017

Q&A: Serial Entrepreneur Ryan Blair on Investing in and Mentoring Aspiring Startups

Throughout his career as a serial entrepreneur, Ryan Blair has created and sold numerous companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. Blair is the former CEO of ViSalus, a healthy lifestyle company that went from...

byCara O'Bleness

April 17, 2017

Getting Back To Basics: Lessons From My Interviews

When I first started social venture labs, I drew inspiration from companies who were classic examples of triple bottom line organizations like Burt’s Bees and Life Is Good. The owners of these kinds of companies...

byChristine Haskell

September 15, 2008

Startup Business Coaching

I'm going to Italy in September with my wife. I don't speak Italian. If I want to be able to get along in Italy by speaking the native language I have two choices. I can...

byJoel Welsh

January 9, 2007

Back from L.A., Looking for Mentors

We returned from our KABC radio seminar in L.A. with moderator Al Rantel with renewed excitement. We were hoping 120 people would turn out and it was standing room only... more like 160 people showed....

byRich Sloan

November 9, 2005