About MBMentors
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Our Mission
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, MBMentors volunteers are a diverse team of individuals brought together by the mission to advise, support and empower entrepreneurs and small business owners. We do this with our skills, experiences, knowledge, talents and abilities to help you start, run and grow your businesses.
We provide our most of our services at no cost to clients. Our team members are driven by their desire to give back to the Minnesota business community by helping anyone who requests our services. Our goal is to help you succeed in your business venture.
Our Values
Commitment to Client
We develop relationships that make a positive impact in the lives and businesses of our clients.
Integrity
We are honest, transparent and committed to doing what’s best for our clients and our organization. We are non-political and operate with no hidden agendas. We are ethical and show respect for all.
Listening First
We believe in listening first. We seek to understand before advising. Non-Judgmental: We don’t judge a client’s business, ideas or opinions. We facilitate their understanding of what it takes to build and grow their business to achieve success.
Diversity
We are inclusive of clients and team members. Our individual differences strengthen our organization and the trust and respect we have for each other improves our outcomes. We are committed to building an encouraging, supportive environment
Teamwork
MBM’s success is dependent upon the collective knowledge, skills, energy, experience, intelligence and contributions of our team members. We leverage our combined team resources to improve our work with clients, our team and our partners. We are united in helping clients and each other in achieving our mission.
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FAQs
Founded in March 2020, MBMentors is a premier source of free small business advice for entrepreneurs and established small businesses owners. MBMentors is staffed by current and former business owners and experienced executives with the objective of helping people move their companies forward.
We are a non-profit, all-volunteer company that focuses on these core competencies:
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Free and confidential mentoring/coaching.
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Free workshops and webinars on a variety of topics pertinant to small business owners and startups.
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Free business plan advice. We use LivePlan software a free service to our clients who need a business plan.
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CEO Roundtables facilitated by experienced business leaders.
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We formed MBMentors to allow our mentors to more closely tailor our mentoring services to our client’s needs. We do this by:
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Providing mentoring when the client needs it. Our clients can self-schedule online appointments (by either phone, email, Zoom, or face-to-face).
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Creating alliances with organizations that support entrepreneurs and local businesses (chambers, economic development agencies, MeetUp groups, and more).
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Maintaining the client-mentor relationship from business startup to the business sale.
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We never request donations for mentoring, webinars or business plans. These are 100% free to all our clients.
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MBMentors is a business mentoring organization. We are not consultants. MBM provides advice on starting and running a business. This includes but not limited to financial management, marketing, operations, sales, leadership and more. Accordingly, MBMentors will assist and guide clients in the preparation of business and financial plans as described below, but is precluded from actually producing a final product for the client.
Although some of our volunteers might come professional backgrounds (i.e., Legal, Accounting, Engineering, Medical, etc), MBMentors volunteers are strictly forbidden from providing any advice to clients that could be interpreted or construed as acting in a legal or finance/accounting capacity.