Mentoring at Blueprint Health

Mentors are primarily successful entrepreneurs or individuals with experience, connections and perspective regarding potential customers (hospitals, insurers, provider groups, pharmaceutical companies). It is a completely volunteer activity, without the expectation of reward or compensation.

The initial way that mentors interact with our companies is via one-on-ones. These are 15 minute sessions, either in-person or over the phone, in which mentors and company founders explore mutual interest in starting a mentor relationship. Mentors are also required to participate in at least one event (Launch Day, Mentor Dinner, Mentor Morning, or Private Demo Day) each program. After one-on-ones, mentoring interactions are self-driven by mutual interest of the company and the mentor.

We ask all of our mentors to commit to the following Mentoring Principals:

• Do it because you love helping start-up founders. Don’t expect anything in return.
• Companies survive off of potential customer and investor introductions. Make them if you can. Explain to founders what you would need to be comfortable making introductions.
• Be direct, but be careful to separate fact from opinion. Arrogance isn’t helpful.
• Be empathetic. Creating a company is really hard.
• Realize that founders may need time to understand. Guide them, but they must make their own decisions and mistakes.
• Be optimistic.
• Clearly commit to help or not. Either is fine.
• Specific actionable / tactical advice can be significantly more helpful than general advice. Send them an actual example if you have it.

Interested in Becoming a Mentor?

To apply to be a mentor – please complete our Mentor Application Form.

We will review your application and if you meet our criteria, we will ask you to submit an online video interview and do a final phone interview. A typical candidate has started a ventured backed healthcare IT business and grown it to $10M+ in revenue. We will evaluate other candidates, including physicians and executives at healthcare organizations, but we currently have a waiting list of interested individuals.