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Mentoring guidelines

Engagement letter

Investment readiness criteria

Mentoring disabled entrepreneurs

Useful websites

Recommended reading

Founders' equity allocation

      
         
     Mentoring guildines      
   


Here are some Mentoring Guidelines that will help you with your mentoring engagements.

      
         
     Engagement letter      
   


Here is the text of an Engagement Letter between you and your client, setting out the terms and conditions under which you are providing mentoring services.

At the start of each mentoring engagement, we strongly recommend that each of the individuals who you will be mentoring signs a copy of this letter, once for themselves and once on behalf of their company.

Amongst other things, this will protect you from any possible claims of liability that might arise from your assignments.

      
         
     Investment readiness criteria      
   
Here is a list of criteria against which your clients' business plans will be judged by potential investors.

Investment readiness criteria devised by Michael Webster and Rob Wirszycz.

      
         
     Mentoring disabled entrepreneurs      
   


Mentoring disabled entrepreneurs by Peter Dudley and Alistair Fulton

This document sets out the Company's policy for those contacting and mentoring disabled people and provides useful advice on etiquette.

Any ITC member involved in mentoring who may contact disabled people is advised to read the ‘Essential Disability Etiquette’·

Any ITC member intending to become involved in mentoring a disabled person is expected to read the ‘Essential Disability Etiquette’ and is recommended to attend the half day ‘Disability Awareness Training’.

      
         
     Useful websites      
   
ITC member John Cavill publishes a Learning Blog on various aspects of his doctoral research into the characteristics of entrepreneurial teams.

John has also written a paper entitled Growth Entrepreneurship: Do we really understand the drivers of new venture success? which was commissioned by SEEDA. 		     
         
     Recommended reading      
   

  • Coaching for Performance: GROWing People, Performance and Purpose by Sir John Whitmore. A diamond amongst the polished glass of coaching literature. Recommended by Simon Williams.

  • The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan by John Mullins. Recommended by Simon Williams.

  • Seed-Stage Venture Investing: The Ins and Outs for Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, and Investors on Successfully Starting a New Business - very expensive, even second-hand, and written from a US perspective, by invaluable nevertheless. Recommended by Simon Williams.

      
         
     Founders' equity allocation      
   


Founders' equity tool: Amongst a group of two or more founders in a new business, who should receive what proportion of the equity? This is a rough and ready tool to help you take a first stab at a difficult question. Devised by Simon Williams.

 

 

 

     
 
 
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