Slice of Mentorship Podcast. Episode #2: Brittney Ziebell

Entrepreneurship pie: slice of mentorship podcast

Conversation with Brittney Ziebell, Director of Entrepreneurship at Silicon Couloir, Jackson WY
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Are you working full-time to run the mentorship program?
1:35 What makes your mentorship program different?
2:20 What's the secret to being a great mentor in your program?
3:15 Have you ever said no to any mentor applying to your program?
3:54 Do mentors have to be entrepreneurs?
5:17 What's the secret in putting together a great team of mentors?
6:22 Trial period, and how often do startup change mentors on their team?
7:06 What are the current priorities in enhancing mentor experience?
10:11 What kind of founders do you currently serve?
11:41 How do you engage founder and figure out the right fit for them?
13:36 What are the tricks or hacks to deal with diligent founders who are not making real progress?
14:55 Does it help to focus on founders as people vs. just focusing on their businesses?
15:26 Do you ever "fire" founders?
18:04 Challenge with the homework and three-page agendas
19:01 How does mentorship fit into the founder journey in your startup ecosystem?
21:01 Are there other organizations that do something similar?
21:58 What have you found to be a way to measure and demonstrate success of the mentorship program?
23:51 Team
24:26 Sharing success stories through write-ups and case studies
25:40 Do you reach out to broader community?
26:27 What made you apply for this role?
28:11 Was there anything you didn't expect when you took on the role?
29:29 What's your honest assessment of Traction5 that your program is using?
33:56 Talking to sister mentorship programs
35:19 What are the specific insights you implemented from conversations with other mentorship programs?
37:04 What's your thinking on scaling the mentorship program?
39:40 What would you say to someone new who wants to start a mentorship program or joins to lead existing one?

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