“Every idea is worth as much as we can leverage out of it. I love challenging the ideas and the way how our teams would like to generate value for their clients through services or products.”

Mentoring to me means I can contribute to something greater than myself, in a way that also helps create a more prosperous nation and, ultimately, a better world. I am a skill mentor. I teach teams how to present their ideas in a compelling way; we work on putting their diamond-quality concepts on a purple velvet background.

I try to act with the #givefirst attitude coined by David Cohen and Brad Feldt by Techstars: "In the startup world, Give First means simply trying to help anyone, especially entrepreneurs, without any expectation of getting anything back."

Mentoring is good for your mind and you can support a team with your experience but you’ll also get back a lot, like industry insights, great network. And mentoring is good for your mental health: giving is always good and you’ll keep motivated by the enthusiasm of team of mentees.

"Mentoring is about inspiring. It is very rewarding to share my several years of startup support experience with young teams and see how this accumulated learning can help them grow. "

Mentoring is one of the best ways to help others grow their potentials while you are developing in the same time.

It is a great honor to be a member of the ILab family. For me, mentoring is about navigating via questions, storytelling, and mediation. It is an exciting learning journey both for mentees and mentors.

"The heart of every design idea is the designer itself. Mentoring both the designer and the idea is paramount to seize the business opportunity and growth potential present in the industry yet without curtailing creativity."

"The best place to be is near to a startup if you want to shape and meet with the future. To help ambitious teams achieve their dreams is always worth. You get motivated, became extremely creative but at the same time it is important to talk and connect with many people to share, validate and finetune ideas worth to realize and make it happen."

"Mentoring is a great chance to give back my knowledge and experience while it is also extremely gratifying to engage in inspirational relationships with committed young talents and entrepreneurs, who always bring fresh perspectives, unforeseen challenges and new ideas into our collaboration."

"I’m grateful to CEU iLab for inviting me to join the team as a mentor. Growth of small companies is vital for the health of the economy, the country and the world. I’m fortunate to have this opportunity to support the effort.😊"

“Mentoring isn’t about constantly telling people what to do. A good mentor inspires startups in a way that they realize their issues through intense co-working. It’s more about guidance and consulting”.

"Mentoring means joint work, friendship and mutual respect, giving past experience to avoid current pitfalls. It is always a challenge to turn a business idea and entrepreneurial spirit into structured business. It is a privilege to belong to CEU’s community.”

I love to help people solve their challenges by sharing my experience. Mentoring for me is also a way to keep learning from all the people and teams I meet. These things give me joy!

"Having worked for the world's leading consulting companies for decades, I learned how to make companies successful and profitable. Now I share this knowledge with joy and hope that the next generation of entrepreneurs will profit from it."

"On the quest for finding eternal youth (of mind) business veterans like myself often engage an activity called mentoring. It’s unclear whether it is a social activity, a process, or a passionate connection to some creative ideas. One thing for sure, the outcome is a lot of learning. Who is benefiting whether the mentee or the mentor is yet to be found out!"

As a genetically curious person, my comfort zone is outside any comfort. Mentoring has been a natural part of my life for a few years already - a fantastic connection to experience learning, growing and helping others again and again.

"Mentoring startups with truly disruptive ideas helps me think outside of the box. We cannot go back and use the best practices because there aren't any. Innovation needs to be part of our culture. We’re in trouble if we can’t catch up with the constantly transforming world. Mentoring keeps me fit for the customers."

"Mentoring takes me out of my comfort zone and allows me to reflect to my own activities from a new perspective as well. A mentor is not an executive, a shareholder or a consultant. We there to listen, ask questions and provide feedback, but always allow the team to make the decisions. I'm thrilled to see how often these decisions are different to what I would have decided and I learn a lot throughout the process."

"Mentoring is a possibility to help future entrepreneurs reach their goals more quickly based on our earlier experience. This process benefits all participants so we do it with pleasure."

"A mentor is not someone who walks ahead of you to show you how they did it. A mentor walks alongside you to show what you can do, it's about growing others."

"I've become a mentor to contribute to innovators' efforts creating value and to help them to manage the ups and downs of their entrepreneurial journey more effectively than I did."

"Mentoring is a fantastic way to keep the mind fresh, meet young and motivated entrepreneurs and help a little bit, if possible."

"At CEU iLab quality matters."

“Mentoring is a journey for both the mentee and the mentor. First, it is about giving to the mentee while the mentors also learn a lot. My mentorship style has three key elements: asking a lot of questions, challenging the teams I have the privilege to work with and, as appropriate, sharing my experience, knowledge that is relevant for the given start-up.”

What keeps me motivated is to meet talented young and innovative people, humble professionals, sparks, to find potential start-ups, companies and to help these value chains as a kind of cohesion force in my market. My goal is to play a significant role in the proptech innovation and help the digital transformation of the real estate industry as a business developer with strategic thinking and project management.