As a mentor, your job is not to dash the dream, but add realism to the endeavor. Don’t tell them they cant be astronauts, tell the entrepreneur that they have to study math to be an astronaut, and give them the direction to determine if they even like math.
Before we get to the solution, let’s talk a little about what the problem itself is.
[ via Sid Savara ]
If I had to concentrate the startup advice I’ve absorbed over the past 2 years, I could limit the list to:
I’m gonna let that marinate * for a bit, and then come back and expand on these a bit.
[ anonymous via Michael Arrington ]