The Lean LaunchPad Workshop: Mentor Tutorial Steve Blank Jon Feiber Jon Burke
You Know More Business Than Your Team
That’s not the goal of the class
The Role of Mentors
Help the team discover and utilize their own social network
The Role of Mentors Teach them how to get meetings
The Role of Mentors Teach them how to listen, not sell
The Role of Mentors Teach them how to think past the technology to the business model
The Role of Mentors Teach them how to Iterate and Pivot
The Role of Mentors You are an extension of the teaching team
The Role of Mentors You are NSF’s long term investment
What’s Not the Role of Mentors
Doing all the outside building discovery
What’s Not the Role of Mentors Selling when you should be listening
What’s Not the Role of Mentors Innovating the business model by yourself
What’s Not the Role of Mentors
Mentor Checklist Get the team to: – make customer contacts/week –at least 1 post/week from you, the Entrp Lead and PI Talk to the PI & Entrp lead as least once/week Review team weekly presentation before they present You own identifying and correcting gaps in their business knowledge –Your teaching team is here to help