Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services
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Mentor Collective
BIPOC
University of Colorado Denver
Penn State
Dartmouth
Wells Fargo
Sounding Board
Resolve Growth Partners
Lumina Foundation
Mentor Collective’s
People
Jackson Boyar
James Lu Morrissey
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Jenna Harmon
Joe Sutherland
EdSights
Claudia Recchi
Groups
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Boston
Indianapolis
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Summary
The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale.Startups that want to scale mentorship across different industries need to build up a supply of mentors diverse, and present, enough to click with the variety of students in today’s society: ranging from the part-time graduate student who is busy with parent duties, to the burnt out, first-generation Ivy League star, to the engineer who just broke into tech but is struggling with work/life balance.For Mentor Collective, a Boston-based startup founded in 2014, answers to the challenges and opportunities within scaled mentorship have taken time to figure out.
As said here by Natasha Mascarenhas