Why do you need mentors and technical expertise in a small business? Mentors can be valuable sources of information at any stage of your company’s growth. Mentors can often give you a fresh perspective on problems or challenges because they’re not personally involved. Technical experts give you domain knowledge for your business, in our case, technical experts will be focused on the agriculture vertical. For this reason, it’s important to find not only a mentor and a technical expert who has experience and knowledge, but also someone you can trust and feel at ease with.
Out mentorship program will mostly consist of Africans in the Diaspora, but we will also have mentors from other Emerging Markets like, Brazil, India, and etc. Whatever the case is, Africa needs an enabling environment in place, which allows entrepreneurs and mentors to scale businesses. In our case, we are strictly focused on Agriculture businesses.