For Budding Entrepreneurs
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Are you an industry practitioner, business leader, or seasoned professional who’s curious about leveraging your valuable experience and network by mentoring startups — creating a significant impact?
Join us for our ASN Masterclass: Serve the Startup Industry as a Mentor, a practical and inspiring session designed to help you understand how your skills, knowledge, and lived experience can meaningfully support early-stage founders.
Whether you come from corporate, SME, tech, finance, product, operations, HR, marketing, or any specialised field — there is a founder out there who needs what you know.
This masterclass helps you understand where you fit, how you add value, and what opportunities exist within the startup ecosystem.
🚀 What This Masterclass Is About
Entrepreneurs may be visionary, but no one builds alone.
At Asia Startup Network (ASN), we believe that entrepreneurs are bred, not born — and that the right guidance at the right time can drastically change a founder’s trajectory.
But even the most business-savvy person struggles the first time they attempt to build a company. That’s where you come in.
This masterclass is designed to:
- Help you identify what you can offer as a startup mentor
- Introduction to the startup world | Show you the real needs, challenges & patterns early founders face
- Explain how paid mentoring opportunities work at ASN
- Clarify the standards, expectations & boundaries of effective mentoring
- Equip you with frameworks to support founders confidently
📘 Curriculum Overview
What Makes a Successful Founder (and where mentors fit in)
- Common mistakes first-time founders make
- What separates those who scale from those who stagnate
- The role mentors play in reducing risk & accelerating progress
Identifying Your Value as a Mentor
- Mapping your career experience to founder needs
- Skillsets founders consistently seek (and why)
- Understanding your “mentor archetype”: strategist, operator, specialist, coach, connector
The Startup Lifecycle & Where You Add the Most Impact
- Idea validation
- MVP & early traction
- GTM strategy
- Fundraising
- Hiring & leadership
- Systems & scaling
How Paid Mentorship Works at ASN
- Honorarium structure (starting at S$100/hour)
- Matching process
- Expectations & guidelines
- Best practices for impactful mentorship conversations
🎯 Who Should Attend
This masterclass is perfect for:
- Mid-career or senior professionals
- Operators, managers, or specialists
- Corporate leaders transitioning into advisory roles
- Entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and domain experts
- Anyone seeking meaningful, flexible paid work supporting startups
No prior mentoring experience required.
Cost:
- S$299 in cash (in person class)
- S$250 (online class)
Our track record:
- Since 2020, we have clocked over 700 mentoring hours through our programs and initiatives like Mentor For Hope.
- In 2026, we have placed more than 30 mentors in paid and pro-bono mentorship programs, organised in conjunction with universities.
- 80% of mentors continue mentoring the student startup teams for the rest of the year. The 3-month mentorship journey culminated in a Pitch Day, where my co-founder, Andrew and Elise had the pleasure of judging the final presentations.
- The rating of the mentors was 9.4/10.
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