During Mentor Madness, each mentor will typically most companies on the program over a 2 week period, meeting individually with a team for 20 minutes.

The method to the madness is

• for founders to source tactical, strategic, inspirational insights for their startup
• for founders to find which Mentors they would like to choose to be one of their Lead Mentors
• for founders to successfully communicate about their startup, having gone through multiple interactions
• for mentors to find out which founders they would like to be a **Lead Mentor** for

20 minutes can be just the right amount of time to understand all of the above, while it also a reasonable amount of time to figure out that there isn’t going to be a future relationship

Format (schedule)

Sometimes, we have you (the mentor) engage over one full day, where we need you to be fully present.

Sometimes we break it up across 2-3 days and sometimes we scatter meetings for you according to your availability over the 2-week period.

Your program team will confirm what the schedule is.

Format (the interaction)

As founders get to spend 20 minutes with you, founders should use this time to fill you in on themselves & their startup, followed by a discussion on their startup.

• they will typically bring you up to speed with everything in the first 5 minutes, leaving the remaining 15 minutes for discussion

Afterwards, we gather feedback from you & from the founders separately. We find out who wants to be a Lead Mentor for which company and which companies want which mentors to be their Lead Mentors.

We then the match-make Lead Mentors and the startups through a double opt-in process.