Firstly, thank you for sharing your experiences! I became aware of your blog a little over a month ago having recently graduating from University. I started working in a tech startup and not knowing much about startup life, I find your blog posts particularly helpful, especially as I seem to be encountering some of the very points you talk about whilst managing our three products (Missinglettr, Onboard Tips and Updatey).

In fact, my hurdle this week was coming up with alternative ways to approach “important people”… and this blog post has cast a totally different perspective for me! Particularly where you say “I find it helpful to assume that people generally have good intentions” something which (I think) can be forgotten when you get so many “no’s”. Definitely good to keep in mind and keep on going.

It’s only Tuesday and this blog post has already picked up my week! Thanks again 🙂

I think this idea not only applies when asking a mentor a question, but also just when looking at people you admire or want to be like. It’s better to focus on the process of how they got where they are than the actual results.

It’s easy to get distracted by results.

I did have a few question though. You might have answered the questions I am about to ask in a previous blog post, and if that’s the case I will be perfectly happy with a link.

When you start looking for mentors, is there a certain “magic” number of mentors that you are looking for?

Do you try and get multiple mentors with expertise in different areas of your business or do you limit your search to just one mentor?

If you do have multiple mentors, do you ask them all for advice about the same issue or do you target it to a particular mentor?

Thanks Alex. I look forward to your reply.

Forgot to add that I’ve always fond Neil Patel’s Infographic on Contact very Amusing! 🙂