To professionals out here

I am a student and I am in the process of building a startup and as a part of that process I am asking professionals about how they think of providing paid long-term mentorship on the skills of their domain to students in a close-knit community of 3-6 folks for better learning outcomes. Skills eg. - Android development, SDE, Excel in finance,etc

Which one matters: Skills or Experience? Experience, and further the insights comes with multiple 'years of experience' only. On the other hand, 'skills' can be learnt. Who would you give preference to? I've been naive enough to think that what people with 10-20+ yoe is something that I can easily do. But nope, decision making is a completely different ball game. I got this thought when I came across youngsters charging money for 'mentorship' (PS: one off sessions, especially paid, is not how mentor-mentee relationship works). If folks without proper experience is mentoring, what exactly are they sharing? How to get to where they are? What would it take for anyone to get somewhere further ahead (where they themselves haven't been)? Just some 'skills' that mentees should get upskilled on? Skills are required, but so is experience as well. As they say, it's not the tool but you use it that makes the difference! So yes, what exactly are these young 'top mentors' talking about (or preching)? Nuances: yes, one can talk about everything that they have gone through up until then. But in this case, everything would be short term and not really helpful. One off sessions may work if it's just a Q&A or an AMA session. But that's not mentorship. Yes, time is money, and it's fine to charge for it. But is it really that they're valuing their time more, or the money? I have no hate against platforms like Topmate. As a platform, they're good. It's just how we make use of it that is not great. [I do mentor people. I just mentor 3-4 people, and has been doing that since 3-4 years). I have a few mentors as well. That has been going on since last 6+ years. None of those are paid. It's mutual respect and truly supporting others in their journey. I occasionally do the 'AMA or Q&A sessions + resume review as well'. Again free, but not under the disguise of 'mentorship'

I am a co-founder and director at a software consulting company in Mumbai. It is bootstrapped, cash flow positive with steadily growing revenue, team strength and clientele, and doing well for 5-6 years, since we started. I need to connect to entrepreneurs in tech who have been in the industry long enough to guide me and mentor me for strategic decisions, to take it to the next level. Where do I look, and how should I reach out to them?

Lets just say, - You will have a 1 hr session AMA - Get Study Materials - Gives you customised solution - Help you plan your career journey

I had this idea in mind, that many of us either want to learn something new or create our own product but we either don't have the time or consistency to learn or no time to build huge products alone. So I'm proposing this, why don't we software Engineers of all experience levels come together and build communities where if someone wants to learn SpringBoot Backend or React Frontend or whatever the stack is, they come along and start working on a product and learn along the way. To help them, experienced software Engineers come along and if they want they work on it and help the people and guide them with the best practices. In the case of experienced folks, let's say they decide on several products and we divide the teams based on the expertise and start working on them. What do we get in return? Better networking, experience and maybe a few good startups which are built by us, and they succeed at a product level. Who is this for? Anyone who wants to mentor, learn or want to build a product but they don't have people to do that. Who all are invited? Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Director of Engineering, CTOs and others. Sr folks to help the community. Let's say we decide on 5 products, make a roadmap on how we want to work and within a year we release these products in the market and maybe maybe we get to work on our own company rather than from others. if not, then also good karma and networking will be done which will be helpful for this tough time ahead of us. Today's Junior engineers will be Senior engineers of tomorrow. Today's Senior engineers will be a great part of management of tomorrow. Let's build real software and change the way we learn things and do great engineering and learn a lot and earn from the products as well. Thanks 🙏🏻

A platform for long term mentorship where users can connect with professionals to get guidance for getting into their desired organisations or universities. It would be a close-knit community where only 3-4 students can only join for a mentor at a particular time and A mentorship can last up to 6 months. For better understanding there are startups like Preplaced in India and mentor.cam in US

I am building a platform which would help aspirants get connected with peers and mentors to get guidance about their respective domains. How should I attract initial users?

All over LinkedIn when I see people thanking their mentors, I wonder where they get them. I mean I hardly had any interactions with any of my college seniors. And don't get me started on my office colleagues. ( They always seem to be in a bad mood). Coming to the point. I think having honest mentors can really help you fast track your developer career. Let's try to help each other out. I am a backend developer of 2 years. I can help you get 20 LPA. I want someone who can help me earn 30 LPA. PS - This is my first post.

Wanted to say Hi, what do you do, how do you see current phase of your life, how do you look at your career so far, and what do you plan to do in next 5 years, etc.