Hi @hires, welcome to the community,
I think we may have crossed paths at some point (or have common networks), your name sounds very familiar,
Is Make sense still active in Berlin? I was there a few days ago, but didn’t think to connect with someone.
re: mentors (cc @zmorda) If done well, this could be an expensive offering to those in the incubator and it would be great like you say, that the mentors themselves have something to get out of.
In my other business I am now starting (food production), the incubator i’m part of is more of an on site sustainable business school (so not social entrepreneurship), but they provide a roster of coaches for personalized help (1hr or so) and we get 12 hrs of a designated coach time in a semester, and it’s been very helpful! But I’m pretty sure the more committed coaches get paid. No stakes to share, just a service that the program most likely buys.
Other than that, in another project that Edgeryders is involved in, with UCL we have an ongoing call for community managers in Germany - perhaps it could be interesting to you or your network? Feel free to share it forward, or get into it yourself!
cheers,
Noemi