You say what you're stuck on. Mentors say “I can help.”
With this many mentors, the hard part is choosing. So you don't. You say what you're stuck on, and the mentors who can help come find you.
Six kinds of ask. Pick yours.
Choose the one that matches what you came for. Read only the pitch built for it.
Your ask
Stuck on positioning for a dev-tools launch. Want 30 minutes with someone who has done it.
Mentorship request posted
Reaching membersA member raised their hand
View profileDone this three times for infra startups, happy to walk you through it.
A member raised their hand
View profileRepositioned my own dev tool last year. I can show you what moved the needle.
A member raised their hand
View profileI run positioning workshops. Send me the deck and I will react.
A chat opened with each one.
Think about the last time you needed real help.
You wrote a post and hoped the right person scrolled past. That is performing, and it pays the loudest, not the most useful.
You DMed someone senior who has never met you, asked for 15 minutes of their time, softened it four times, and waited. Or you asked a chatbot, which is fluent and confident and has never once done your job.
There is a fourth way, and it points the other direction. You post the ask once, and the people who have been there apply to you. You pick. You book.
Three mentors applied in the first two hours.
Nobody here wrote a cold DM. Micah posted the ask, and the applications below came to him.
Post it and close the tab. Each hand lands in your inbox.
And the ask does not have to be advice.
People come here for a co-founder, a first hire, a warm intro, blunt feedback, a partner, or peers worth knowing. Six kinds of ask, one place to post them.
Some of these started as one ask.
Co-founders, a first hire, a six-figure business. Each from a single post.
Two members met here and became co-founders
Harri Thomas & Vito Margiotta · Co-founders of Elephants, met on GrowthMentor
Passing the Torch · Ep. 5 · Watch on YouTubeA connection here turned into a six-figure business
Etan Efrati & Jack Zerby · Co-founders of Design for Decks, met on GrowthMentor
Passing the Torch · Ep. 1 · Watch on YouTubeA founder hired the person he met on a call
Morgan Schofield · Met a founder on a call, became his marketing director
Passing the Torch · Ep. 6 · Watch on YouTubeMost platforms take a cut of whatever comes next. We take zero percent of anything that happens after. Build something with someone you met here, and it is entirely yours.
Two things keep it honest.
A second opinion on my Q3 pricing change, before Friday.
Post the next one when this one closes.
One ask at a time
You get one open request. It forces the ask down to what you need this week, and every reply gets your full attention instead of another overflowing inbox.
“Can someone help with my pricing?”
Vague ask. Generic replies, or none.
“$49 to $99/mo, 200 paying users, 8% monthly churn. Worth the risk?”
At 8% churn, fix retention before the hike. A higher price on a leaky bucket just speeds the leak.
Tier it. Grandfather current users at $49, launch $99 for new, watch conversion for two weeks.
Specifics pull real answers
Put a real number, a budget, or a deadline in the ask. Constraints pull answers you can act on, not “it depends.”
Who answers when you post?
Vetted mentors, and only vetted mentors. Every application is read by the founder.
One hundred apply, four get in. Those are the hands that go up.
Members who have done it, ready to answer.
Never pitch a mentor again.
Post what you're stuck on once. The people who have done it will raise their hands.