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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by riffraff on Sunday August 28, 2011 @04:53PM (#2934937)
for a moment I've been wondering why "The Conscience of a Hacker"[0] had become popular again.

[0] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&mode=...

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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by olalonde on Sunday August 28, 2011 @05:43PM (#2935076)
I was thinking exactly the same. For those who haven't heard of it before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by jseliger on Sunday August 28, 2011 @07:54PM (#2935333)
I'd add a "mentee manifesto" too, since mentorship is a proverbial two-way street. I actually wrote an essay on that topic from an education perspective: "How to get your Professors’ Attention — along with Coaching or Mentoring" (http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2...) because I noticed that some students systematically make mistakes they may not be aware of when it comes to seeking mentors or advice.
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by cek on Sunday August 28, 2011 @04:56PM (#2934946) 

   Be socratic.
   Listen too.
In my mind these two are basically the same and I'd summarize them as "Use the 70/30 rule. Listen 70% of the time and talk only 30%".

   Expect nothing in return (you’ll be delighted with what you do get back).
To me this is what differentiates great mentors from others more than anything.
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by nl on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:22PM (#2935628)
Be socratic

This specifically refers to the idea of questioning in order to find the underlying truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

That is different to just listening, or even the 70/30 rule. Being Socratic means actively questioning the assumptions and model of the mentee, rather than trying to build on their assumptions with your ideas.

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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by cek on Monday August 29, 2011 @12:25AM (#2935917)
I totally understand that. I was implying that to be Socratic you need to listen a lot more than you talk. Ask a question and then listen.
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by hollerith on Sunday August 28, 2011 @04:22PM (#2934835)
>I’ve been running TechStars for six years now. . . . we’ve seen those companies go on to raise about $100M in funding (averaging about $1M each post TechStars)

I would have been more interested to read about valuations than about amounts raised.

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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by champion on Sunday August 28, 2011 @09:04PM (#2935474)
TechStars gathers some info on their results to date: http://www.techstars.org/results/
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by chrismanfrank on Sunday August 28, 2011 @06:16PM (#2935154)
me too. but it's possible a lot of these startups raised with convertible notes, and so would not have valuations yet.
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Re:The Mentor Manifesto by matusz13 on Sunday August 28, 2011 @08:14PM (#2935378)
while they haven't gone through the trouble of posting valuations (I agree, it would be nice to see) they do have a results page http://www.techstars.org/results/
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