How To Find The Best Mentors & Advisors – w/ Author of “The Art of Mentoring” & TEDx speaker, mentor & investor…

Date: 05/11/2017

Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event where we discuss how to find the right mentors and advisors, what value to expect, how to manage such relationships, and how experienced individuals can become mentors and advisors themselves.

Our expert panelists in this roundtable discussion are:

-Ravi Gundlapalli, author of the book “The Art of Mentoring: A Guidebook for Giving and Getting the Most from Mentorships” and who is also Founder of MentorCloud, a social learning and mentoring platform for enterprises and professional networks.

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-Deepak Goel, a TEDx speaker, investor and mentor at 500 Startups and Khosla Impact Fund, Deepak is also Founder of KarmaCircles, a mentoring network that connects mentors with entrepreneurs, and has raised funding from famed investors like Mark Cuban.

In this roundtable discussion, we will talk about how finding the right mentors and advisors is crucial for everyone who wants to build their startup or advance their careers. Mentors and advisors can help get your idea off the ground, discover product market fit, refine your pitch, find investors, and offer professional and moral support, among many other things.

But finding a mentor and advisor is not always easy. In this discussion, we will answer many of the most important questions regarding mentorship, such as:

– What type of support do mentors and advisors provide?
– Where do I find mentors?
– How do I convince a mentor to advise me or my company?
– How are mentors compensated?
– How do I manage the relationship so that both parties receive value?
– And so much more, including your questions!

If you are a startup, entrepreneur or mentor, this is a talk you do not want to miss!

The event begins with a networking reception where food and drinks will be provided.
Free Parking is available (details below).

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Agenda

6:00pm – 6:45pm – Dinner and networking, demo/sponsor tables
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Speakers program and Q&A
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the speaker, networking

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Date:

Thursday, 05/11/2017

Time:

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Founders Floor

2 North 1st St., 5th Floor

San Jose, CA 95113

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Discussion Topics

Ravi and Deepak will give invaluable advice about how to find the correct mentors and advisors for you. They will be sharing their first-hand research and experience in searching for and maintaining two-way relationships with mentors and advisors. The correct mentors and advisors are crucial for everyone who wants to build their startup or advance their careers, especially in tech.

Speakers

Deepak Goel

Entrepreneur

Deepak Goel holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Haas School of Business, UC Berkley. He’s an Angel Investor, Startup Advisor, TEDx speaker, and the Founder of KarmaCircles, a peer to peer mentoring platform. Prior to this, he was the co-founder of Packback, a startup funded by Mark Cuban & other notable angel investors and was also the Chief Product Officer of IndiaHomes (backed by NEA, Foundation Capital & Helion Ventures). Deepak was also the Director of Product Management at Coupons.com where he created & grew several multi-million dollar products and a senior executive at Microsoft & Nokia.

Furthermore, he has also judged several business plan competitions at University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Ravi Gundlapalli

Entrepreneur, Author

Ravi Gundlapalli holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and is the Founder and CEO of MentorCloud, a cloud-based peer-to-peer learning platform for enterprises and professional associations. Ravi is a globally recognized thought leader on mentoring who recently published a book: “The Art of Mentoring: A Guidebook for Giving and Getting the Most from Mentorships”. he has also been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Forbes India, The Hindu, and Wharton.

Ravi was an invited speaker at the World Demographic Forum in Switzerland and delivered a plenary talk on mentoring in Washington DC, at the invitation of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Before MentorCloud, Ravi led supply chain solutions for Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Raytheon and Hitachi. Ravi actively mentors entrepreneurs and professionals in US and India and is also a mentor at Founder Institute in Silicon Valley.

Join us and help Ravi reach his goal to connect 100 million mentors and mentees by 2020.

Free street parking

Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.

Free parking garage

Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.

Public transportation

VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy. 　Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.

Refund Policy

You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimer

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