Local business owners credit mentors with helping them succeed
Do you remember your first-grade teacher? How about an early boss who inspired you to do your best?
Do you remember your first-grade teacher? How about an early boss who inspired you to do your best? Or an associate who taught you a valuable business lesson years ago that still comes in handy?
Perhaps they were mentors.
Many small-business owners rely on mentors when they start their enterprises. They can be other business owners, retired executives, a favorite university professor, trusted advisers like accountants or lawyers, close family members, or even total strangers.
Before Stacey Turner opened Blessed Blossoms, a flower and gift shop on Lagrange Street in Toledo, seven years ago, she sought advice from a florist she had never met, Jean Emery, who operated Emery’s Flowers & Company in Maumee.