By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n
Default mentors are the fourth category of mentors<\/p>\n
Superstar mentor Cohort mentor Junior mentor Default mentor.<\/p>\n
I talk about mentorship in my book on video’s chapter 5. It’s free here https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/larrychiang<\/a><\/p>\n Default mentors is something I tweet about<\/p>\n Larry Chiang \u2730 (@LarryChiang) 5\/12\/12 11:58 AM I know what my default mentor is trying to teach. It’s out of good intention, but it’s wrong<\/p>\n In this case it was a VC giving me feedback that my events were too engineer focused and too long-term. (This fund is in danger of imploding so they are needing a Zynga \/ Facebook \/ LinkedIn \/ Duck9 \/ NetSuite IPO NOW.<\/p>\n Silliness<\/p>\n It’s cray cray to do a cs major lead gen program to find legendary founders you can harvest right now. My default mentor wants me to get them Names and Numbers Now.<\/p>\n I’m going to stay the course and listen to my superstar mentor. I’m doing something that I am head and shoulders above. I am generating leads of engineers who don’t want to be founders so that they might be founders in 12-20 years so I can fund them in 9-25 years<\/p>\n My superstar mentor thinks I’m a genius try-hard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CEO of Duck9 Stanford University EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)<\/p>\n Duck9 = Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9 125 University Avenue\/ 100 Palo Alto CA 94301 https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass<\/a> 650-566-9600 650-566-9696 (direct) 650-283-8008 (cell)<\/p>\n **************** Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel “What They Don’t Teach at Business School” https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a> CNN Video Channel: https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/p>\n Read my last 10 tweets at https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/p>\n Author, NY Times Bestseller https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/p>\n “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” comes out 11-11-12<\/p>\n