I read a lot about how a great asset it can be to have a mentor when you want to be an entrepreneur. Today as a young entrepreneur (20yo), I'm asking myself if I should have a mentor. I know a lot of people in the business and I would love to have someone especially as a mentor, I often talk to him, he gives me some advices but it's not mentoring though.
So I'm asking HN the question, should I ask him to be my mentor or just see if it comes up some day, how do people do usually ? Is it different whether it's in the US or in Europe ? Also if you have a mentor, how did you find yours ?
The best mentor is having a daring attitude. Dare to do things and learn from them. No one can teach you what you get from that. If you want to learn a bit more about business (real stuff, not book fluff), I have a project on github that is focused on me sharing knowledge gained from more than 15 years of doing business and software/startups. Check out my profile for the link.
Having people helping you with their ideas (or challenging yours) is mandatory in entrepreneurship. That being said I think the best way to have your mentors is to actually ask them to be advisors in your startup.<p>You will have to pass them some equity on your startup but you're going to gain knowledge and maybe prevent a few mistakes.