Moonshine at @SXSW 2011 With @LarryChiang #sxsw – YouTube
By Larry Chiang
Mentorship is important. But many miss the point. Many people rely on getting assigned a mentor. The general population fights getting mentored because they resisted a teacher in school.
Be street smart
You have to ‘pay’ a mentor with gifts, compliments, advocacy of issues they care about or/and flowers

It’s street smart to woo a mentor with flowers
As *your* gateway mentor, my only requested payment is that you write a paper thank you card to a high school teacher you had.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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I resemble a ‘gateway mentor’ (#ch5) duck9.com/blog/celebrity…
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Female-to-female mentorship is tricky because older women sometimes don’t like younger versions of them
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Kevin Kowalke (@kevinkowalke) |
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#MrPeabody, Dr. Dog, and the importance of a mentor bit.ly/vc0711bp27 #SXSW #GoGetChitter @LarryChiang
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A gateway mentor helps you cut a verbal deal for a baseball. To teach you cutting deals with VCs and Silicon Valley bank execs:



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