For young women in business, peer mentorship and support are especially valuable — but not always as easy to find. Thirteen YEC women share their best advice.
Categories Mentorship & Support
You can't start a business without some help along the way.
No matter what business challenge you're facing, someone out there's been in a similar situation before you. Mentors, personal advisors and even entrepreneurial friends can fill in some of the blanks -- and provide a needed support network when startup life gets overwhelming. (It happens, trust us.)
Learn from your fellow business owners how to find a mentor, what questions to ask, how to form a personal advisory board and where to go to mentor others in return. You never know where a few pieces of great advice might take you.
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