Being on both sides of the mentoring table, it's definitely an important topic which is hardly covered.
One thing I like doing is in case I do use one or more of the tips given by the mentor, email him/her and tell them how it worked out, even if it's a couple of months later. I think that this is the reason entrepreneurs become mentors and most of them are very interested of hearing if their tips were useful. Sometimes I also share things which didn't work for me and why, I find out that mentors want to hear about these experiences as well.
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Thanks for posting this!<p>@HN: I tried to summarize the biggest lessons learned that came to my mind - pretty sure i missed a lot.<p>Please add here which recommendations to startups you would have - i add them to the post afterwards!
It'd be interesting to know if it's standard practice for accelerators to do intensive pitch/mentoring days like this, or they are more inclined to pair teams off with mentors that make sense centrally or serendipitously.
I added a presentation as a download to the post. This presentation is done by geoff watts for upcoming seedcamp recruits. I really love the presentation as it goes into several really good details - hope it is useful