{"id":4569,"date":"2015-05-28T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2015-05-28T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:36:50","slug":"whats-a-gateway-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/whats-a-gateway-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s a Gateway Mentor?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moonshine at @SXSW 2011 With @LarryChiang #sxsw – YouTube<\/a> <\/p>\n
By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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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. <\/div>\n
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Be street smart<\/div>\n
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You have to ‘pay’ a mentor with gifts, compliments, advocacy of issues they care about or\/and flowers<\/div>\n
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It’s street smart to woo a mentor with flowers <\/p>\n

As *your* gateway mentor, my only requested payment is that you write a paper thank you card to a high school teacher you had.<\/p><\/div>\n

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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/26\/15, 7:48 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
I resemble a ‘gateway mentor’ (#ch5<\/a>) duck9.com\/blog\/celebrity\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Female-to-female mentorship is tricky because older women sometimes don’t like younger versions of them<\/div>\n
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<\/td>\nKevin Kowalke (@kevinkowalke<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/3\/14, 2:08 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
#MrPeabody<\/a>, Dr. Dog, and the importance of a mentor bit.ly\/vc0711bp27<\/span><\/a> #SXSW<\/a> #GoGetChitter<\/a> @LarryChiang<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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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:<\/div>\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}