How to Find Great Startup Mentors

Aaron Dinin, PhD
5 min readMay 19, 2020
Photo by Joao Tzanno on Unsplash

The startup ecosystem is overrun with people willing to give advice. From successful entrepreneurs to unsuccessful entrepreneurs to — for reasons I’ve yet to understand — people who’ve never built companies in their lives, if you need mentorship for your startup, plenty of people are willing to give it. But just because lots of people give advice to startups, it doesn’t mean they’re all giving good advice. Do you know how to tell…

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Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com