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Mentors may also offer client companies networking opportunities with other entrepreneurs, business people, professionals and organizations in the community. |
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Mentors themselves can expect to benefit from their affiliation with the Center as members of a highly selective, dynamic and well-respected business development initiative. Further, mentors will have the opportunity to participate managerially (if there is a match) and financially in some of the region’s fastest growing start-up firms. |
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If you are interested in providing advisory and/or mentoring services, please contact us at (802) 656-3880. |
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The Center has assembled a group of individuals to serve as business “advisors.” These advisors supplement the mentor services, typically consulting with clients on individual projects or issues. The “advisor pool” includes service providers from a variety of disciplines, e.g., accounting, banking, legal, etc. While in most instances, advisors are asked to consult on specific needs of client firms, it is possible that a mentor – an entrepreneur or executive – may work on individual issues as well.
Advisors also offer client companies networking opportunities with other entrepreneurs, business people, professionals and organizations in the community. |
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Advisors themselves can expect to benefit from their affiliation with VCET as members of a highly selective, dynamic and well-respected business development initiative. Further, serving as an advisor may prove as an excellent means of generating future clients and contacts in the business community. Advisors may also invest personally in client companies.
Advisors may agree to offer their services to the Center’s clients at one of the following three levels: |
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Level One
Advisors offer at least three hours of their services on a pro-bono basis to each active VCET client. Should the VCET client require services beyond the initial hours offered, those services shall be offered at a discounted rate. Once VCET clients “graduate” from the Center, continued services are available at the standard, undiscounted rate. |
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Level Two
Advisors offer one hour of their services on a pro-bono basis to each active VCET client. Should the VCET client require services beyond the initial hour offered, those services shall be offered at a discounted rate. Once VCET clients “graduate” from the Center, continued services are available at the standard, undiscounted rate. |
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Level Three
Advisors offer their services at a discounted rate to all active VCET clients. Once VCET clients “graduate” from the Center, continued services are available at the standard, undiscounted rate. |
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