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The Map Center
@mapcenter.com

What's the best way to find a new business mentor? No one knows what I do or seems all that interested in learning about how what I do is different. I end up with useless advice like "increase cash flow."

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly)
@pearwaldorf.myatproto.social

idk anything about Shannon as a business consultant but I have found her networking stuff (as a neurodivergent) useful. If she's not what you need, I bet she knows somebody who is www.shannonparris.com/entrepreneurs

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The Map Center
@mapcenter.com

I have definitely asked some big picture questions of ChatGPT and found it somewhat useful as a thought organizing tool. It seems to be very good at obvious answers I've already thought of but occasionally surprises. The need to verify everything you cant trust is a serious impediment.

Michal Migurski
@mike.teczno.com

Yeah, I was for sure being facetious. In the realm of usefulness I’ve often found it helps to seek out people who are like 5+ years ahead of me on some useful axis especially if they were in my situation previously. Less than that makes it competitive, more makes it tenuous.

Ben Spigel
@benspigel.bsky.social

The standard answer is check out score.org. I'm an entrepreneurship professor, but I know that you don't need the standard advice. I think the best way is to find people whose careers you want to emulate or who have built stores you want to shop at and reach out to them.

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The Map Center
@mapcenter.com

That seems smart. I have a few artistic inspirations but not many specific business models I look up to. Time to change that and talk to the folks who did em.

Ben Spigel
@benspigel.bsky.social

If I've learned anything in my 15 years of researching entrepreneurs is that you can't shut them up about their business. Just get them talking and figure out what you can apply to your own world.