In business it's both who you know and who knows you. Often, we don't think that we have value to offer to potential mentors and others who we'd like to add to our network. Michael shares his own introvert's story of creating a platform for building relationships to being invited to the White House.

Guy Kawasaki shares what mentorship and working with Steve Jobs did for his early career. He also talks about being a multipassionate evangelist.

In this bonus episode Peter Shankman shares about why good customer service is so important. The value of mentorship in his life and the song that reminds him of his daughter.

How often have you gone to a restaurant alone and been asked, 'Just one?' or 'Just you?'? It's happened to me more times than I'd like to count. 'Just' is a limiting word and on this SOLO (but not 'just' me) episode I share the 10 tips to being alone in business but creating or feeling like you have a team...a squad...to combat loneliness and have your business soar!

Startup founder, entrepreneur and family woman, Felecia Hatcher shares about her own journey from a guidance counselor's low expectations for her future, to founding multiple startups and now empowering youth to achieve their tech and startup goals.

Since 1997 African American women-owned businesses have grown almost 300% AND those same businesses have generated over $50 billion dollars in revenue--creating jobs and more!

Kathey Porter has just co-authored a new book chronicling the stories of a sampling of African American women entrepreneurs and she stops by to talk about what she's found about mentorship, growth and the general grit of Black women entrepreneurs.

As part of a continuing series of interviews with various entrepreneurs at the tops of their industries, I sat down with 500 Startups Founder, Dave McClure, to talk about what else, money and diversity in Silicon Valley.

Dave McClure is a venture capitalist & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally invest in startups foolish enough to let him. He has been an investor in over 250 companies including Mint.com, Twilio, Wildfire Interactive, SendGrid, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Mashery, CreditKarma, KISSmetrics, and MakerBot, among others.

Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twilio, Mint.com, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter.

He barely graduated from Johns Hopkins University and also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don’t hurt.

Never one to hold back, Dave waxes poetic (not really) on:

• His own journey from Johns Hopkins engineering student to being one of the original PayPal employees to angel to juggernaut
• The lack of diversity in Silicon Valley
• His ‘Why’ for founding 500 Startups
• What companies need to do to position themselves for venture capital
• What he looks for in an investment
• Where’s he’s looking to invest next
• The BIGGEST mistakes startups make
• And most importantly…Why the hell he curses so much!!!!????!!!

Our last day! It is my truest hope that you and your business succeed beyond your wildest imagination. I love hearing from my readers/listeners, so if I may be of any assistance or you have any follow-up questions to these ten tips, please do reach out to me.