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I think there is a genuine need for this, even in these times of faster, easier access to information. (Since you asked for spelling corrections: "[...] to work out the incentives for al participants"; should be all . Also: "The problems I see consist in [...]". In this case, consist of would probably be more appropriate: http://www.bartleby.com/68/65/1465.html )
I am not sure if this is a service people need. The people that need mentors the most probably refuse to get them. People that know they need mentors and actively seek them out eventually find them. Also, you're talking about a small segment of a small niche numbers-wise. Of all the people in the US, only a portion are entrepreneurs or business owners. Of that segment, only a portion are actually successful and will…
He doesn't say his site will limit itself to mentoring about business. As for evaluating mentees: that's a good question. I guess it's not very different from selecting any other type of associates (employees, cofounders), just the stakes are not so high: it's less traumatic to terminate a mentoring relationship if things go wrong. There is no money at stake, and any time investments have supposedly paid for themselv…
For example making the service expensive would weed out a lot of people who are not serious about it. But I do not believe high price this would actually be a solution.
Perhaps matching mentees and mentors is not that different from matchmaking in a romantical sense. We could learn some things from dating sites.
the advice of a mentor is essential to building a broader realization but ultimately you will have to follow your own instinct and make your own decisions.
Agreed. That's the trick -- a good mentor will show you the world and tell you about different places you might want to go. He can even help you book the ticket, but he can't make your decisions for you. A mentor is not a cofounder, is not a coder, and is not a partner. It's like my father-in-law, the carpenter who lives out of town. I know nothing of wood-working, so if I need some work done, I use him as a mentor.…