"Rules for Mentoring Entrepreneurs"

Formed in 1983, the Wayne Brown Institute (WBI) Salt Lake City, Utah, runs the nation’s oldest and most successful non-profit venture accelerator program. WBI’s network of expert mentors has assisted over 580 promising high-tech companies – with impressive results: alumni companies of WBI’s accelerator program have raised a combined $1.7 billion in private equity. Drawing upon decades of shared experience, Brad Bertoch, Wayne Brown Institute Executive Director, Richard Shanaman, SunStar Associates, Inc. and Tom Lund, Zions Bank, discuss the art of mentoring entrepreneurs and provide fundamental rules in helping entrepreneurs with early-stage, high technology companies make winning presentations to investors. Sharing best practices of mentoring, they advise that where “success is a game of inches”, mentors should stay in their comfort zones, stick mainly to their special expertise (“fastballs”), “ask hard questions in soft way”, and search for ways to add to company credibility and reduce risk.

Speakers:

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Bradley Bertoch
Executive Director
Wayne Brown Institute
Salt Lake City, UT
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Richard Shanaman
SunStar Associates, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
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Tom Lund
Vice President
Zions Bank Corporate Banking
Salt Lake City, UT

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