Online Mentor
The Global Entrepreneurship Institute (GEI) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 educational organization with the specific mission of mentoring and educating entrepreneurs around the world. Working as a global business incubator GEI facilitates introductions to investors, professional service providers, and other entrepreneurs.
Since 1998, we have helped entrepreneurs raise over $100 million. Let us help you. Our Online Mentors contribute valuable real-world knowledge, networking contacts, and fresh ideas to your venture team. Our Online Mentoring Program is particularly valuable for new entrepreneurs, who may not have the access to expensive business advisors.
Our Online Mentoring Program
- Do you dream of starting your own business?
- Do you need help finding investors for your business?
- Do you need help with your business plan?
- Do you need help preparing a global business strategy?
- Do you have an idea for a new invention and don’t know where to start?
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Quickview Summary
Online access to your private workspace where you can visit and work one-on-one with an Online Mentor. Working in our private Virtual Incubator you will have access to structured educational content and lesson plans that focus on the most important business drivers to entrepreneurial success. It’s like attending an online class.
Eligibility
Our Online Mentoring Program is global. We work with all industry sectors. To be accepted into our exclusive program, the entrepreneur must be coachable, willing to learn, and have a strong desire to build a high-growth potential enterprise. We prefer working with founder/co-founders of seed and early-stage ventures. We prefer that you have completed our online workshop, completed our business plan review services, or similar academic program; or you were referred here by one of our professional service providers, investors; or another entrepreneur of our global community. And you and your venture team and partners must be in good standing with our organization, our members, and our professional service providers.
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Contact us using the reply form below. Share with us a very brief summary of your business and your ideas on how we can help you succeed. Include your email and your Web site if any. Due to the volume of inquiries from around the world we may need up to 5-7 business days to respond to your inquiry.
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Benefits Working With An Online Mentor
Moving from the idea to implementation of starting a new business is always challenging. With an Online Mentor you will receive critical feedback and guidance on a regular basis. Our innovative service will empower you with the confidence, knowledge, and the tools you need to grow your business. You will learn the skills to make yourself a better entrepreneur.
Many good things happen when you get an online mentor:
- You begin to take your dreams more seriously
- You immediately take more effective and focused actions
- You stop putting up with what is holding you back from your dreams
- You create momentum, so it’s easier to get results when you are motivated
- You set better goals than you would have without the mentor
Get Your Business Plan “Flight-tested”
Do you have a business plan and need us to review it? How does it compare to other business plans that are out there now? Would you like to have your business plan “flight tested” before submitting to potential investors? You will receive valuable feedback on your content and important strategic direction for your company through an intense plan review process. You will have a better understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of your plan. You will know where you stand with respect to other business plans that are out there competing for investors’ money too. And, you will be better prepared for pitching the plan and raising the money you need!
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Get Introduced to Professional Service Providers and Potential Investors
In addition to working with an Online Mentor, you will have access to our guest lecturers and advisors that include high-level professional service providers like: venture capitalists, angel investors, industry experts, consultants, investment bankers, lawyers, accountants, and fellow entrepreneurs. Navigating through the universe of investors can be confusing, even for the most experienced entrepreneurs. The Global Entrepreneurship Institute maintains a proprietary database of over 500 private equity investors around the world representing almost $300 billion invested in businesses all over the world. Our database includes venture capitalists, angel investors, and strategic investors. Our unique relationships with private equity investors allow us to help you target the optimal investors, and we can help facilitate the introductions to investors for you.
Typical Deliverables: What we will work on together
- Business plan and start-up strategy for starting and operating your new business
- Detailed business plan for internal use, for external use to raise money
- Incorporating feedback and suggestions from “flight testing,” revising materials
- Revised business plan for internal use, for external use to raise money
- Financials to include detailed cash budget table and detailed use of proceeds
- Investors Kit to include Executive Summary, collateral materials
- PowerPoint Presentation for investors, strategic partners, and other stakeholders
- Talking points and deal points for financing/loan agreement
- Comfort and confidence from having a peace of mind!
Are you ready to “go global?”
The world is now at your fingertips! Working as a global business incubator we can help you create your “Roadmap To Going Global” and facilitate introductions for you around the world to other entrepreneurs, technology commercialization specialists, and other professional service providers.
Benefits of Creating An Advisory Board
Every publicly traded company in the United States has a formal board of directors. Experienced boards can also help lead entrepreneurs through uncertain times. Michael Dell discovered this: “If a company is having problems, the role of its board becomes greater. Many board members may have seen recessions and downturns more closely than the people who are operating companies today. Because most managers have probably not been through something like this, the board can provide perspective.” And marquee board members can lead the venture to funding. Eugen Chan, CEO of U.S. Genomics, recruited Dr. Craig Venter, president of the first company to map an entire human genome, and by the end of 2002 U.S. Genomics received $25 million in funding.
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We know that the most successful entrepreneurial/start-up companies create an advisory board because many entrepreneurs tend to surround themselves with too supportive “Yes” people. They also tend to get too close to their strengths and weaknesses. In the end, it is difficult to for them to become objective. As General Patton once said, “No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” The founders can often start a fatal flaw of “breathing their own exhaust, and they” and the business runs the risks of suffocating from the lack of new insight and ideas.
Our online mentors can provide questions and ideas that can help stimulate active discussions immediately with your stakeholders. A stakeholder is anyone–whether within or outside your venture–who has a stake in your venture’s performance. Employees, owners, suppliers, investors, and board members are all stakeholders.
Practiced this way, our Online Mentoring Program can serve as a “feasibility-sieve,” helping entrepreneurs ensure that questions of feasibility are fully addressed. Our mentoring services can also encourage what we call “creative turbulence” from your established board members and team of advisors. Remember that while you are riding through their creative turbulence, they have a responsibility to keep asking the right questions and will do so until they are all answered!
Learn From Domain Experts and Guest Lecturers
With our deep connections into the business community, we are able to heavily draw on the experience of guest lecturers and industry domain experts to speak on significant strategic, legal, and financial issues relevant to you and the stage of your company. If billed directly this knowledge and time spent would cost in excess of $10,000, but by assembling domain experts and guest lecturers for our series of programs we are able to offer this great knowledge to you at a fraction of the cost.
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Program Materials
Our approach is aimed at creating knowledge, skills, and awareness in the critical aspects of funding, launching, and growing a new business venture and then leading it to a successful harvest. Each section presents key concepts and practical insights on an important management topic. The foundation of coursework for our Online Mentoring Program is used at the best business schools in the world that teach entrepreneurship. In fact, our materials are used at the Top 10 Colleges for Entrepreneurship.
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“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success is a good checklist of checklists and advice for entrepreneurs.”
- Alfred R. Berkeley, III, Former President and Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success provides smart, practical and forward looking ideas for addressing the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in today’s ever more complicated business environment.”
- Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success promotes entrepreneurship and provides the necessary tools for both the new and experienced entrepreneur to stay on course and succeed.”
- Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
“As a venture capitalist, I listen to hundreds of pitches each year from entrepreneurs seeking advice or capital. Virtually all of them would be better prepared by following Robert’s Roadmap. Filled with powerful insights and real world examples.”
- Ken Deemer Co-Founder, Tech Coast Angels
“Robert W. Price has successfully interwoven relevant business history, strategy, and tactics using a very practical and thought provoking style. This is an entrepreneurial MBA between two covers.”
- Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
“I would say the #1 benefit was that I used it to cross-check that my investor presentation hit all of the topics and major points within topics that you had called out. From that perspective, it was a very useful reference.”
- Jeff Hilbert President and CEO, WiSpry Inc.
Jeff raised over $13.5 million from Blueprint Ventures, American River Ventures, Sid R. Bass Associates, Shepherd Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels.
“Whether you’re a new business owner or a seasoned veteran, anyone can benefit from Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success.”
- National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
“Robert Price does an extremely thorough job of presenting his material in a provocative and thoughtful manner. It would make a fine text for an entrepreneurial course at the university level.”
- Miami Herald
“Entrepreneurial capitalism expert Robert W. Price explores six phases of development he says are essential to every startup or spinoff. Price sweeps aside outdated concepts and provides a thoroughly contemporary toolkit for sustainable growth.”
- Dallas Forth Worth News
“Filled with key steps and strategies, it’s a start to finish guide to maximizing growth for new start-ups.”
- American Venture Magazine
“Roadmap shows readers how a solid business plan can guide them through the uncertainty that lies ahead.”
- Wells Fargo Bank Small Business Advisor
About Our Virtual Incubator
Features some of the most robust yet easy-to-use Internet software ever developed. Built on the latest Microsoft® technology, our secure online learning enables you to log on from any Internet Service Provider.
It’s like attending an online class. It is the most convenient way to learn about starting a new business, writing a detailed business plan, and working online together. This upgrades the quality of your work, helping you prepare your business plan and more solid business strategies. Throughout the time in the Online Mentoring Program, your Mentor will provide guidance and feedback on your progress and provide sound business knowledge.
Work at your own speed, on your own time, 24/7. In your private workspace, all interactions and discussions are conducted asynchronously, using only your Internet browser, so you participate at your convenience. You never have to rush from the office or home to a workshop across town to make an important meeting. You won’t miss an important discussion because of a scheduling conflict.
Technology Recommendations
Hardware & Peripherals:
- A processor of 1.6 GHz or faster
- 256MB RAM or greater
- 1 GB hard drive or larger
- Ethernet connection or 56.6 kbps modem
- Monitor and graphics card with 1024×768 or greater resolution
Operating system:
- Windows® operating software
- Microsoft® Office XP, 2003, 2007 (PC)
- Microsoft® Word
- Microsoft® Power Point®
- Microsoft® Excel
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later
- Adobe® Reader 6.0.1 or later
- Microsoft® Outlook Express 6.0 or later
- A current anti-virus application (we recommend Web Root)
- An e-mail address
- Internet service provider (ISP) account (preferably broadband access)
Our Confidentiality Agreement with You
Throughout your association with our organization, we may be in contact with or directly working with proprietary and confidential information which is important to your professional business activities. We agree that such information must be treated with strict confidence and may not be used at any time or in any manner in work we may do with others in your industry, or business activities. We agree not to disclose the confidential information or any discussions with your organization that have occurred, or are intended to occur, without written consent by your organization. Any other information we may collect from our association with your organization is not disseminated nor sold to other organizations outside of the Global Entrepreneurship Institute.
Our Online Mentoring Program
- Do you dream of starting your own business?
- Do you need help finding investors for your business?
- Do you need help with your business plan?
- Do you need help preparing a global business strategy?
- Do you have an idea for a new invention and don’t know where to start?
>>Register to Get an Online Mentor Now!