--- title: Musings about leadership and management from a geeky perspective | Entrepreneurship description: Entrepreneurship | Geeky management and leadership lessons plus random bits of video games, Lego and other geeky topics from Matthew Stibbe and Articulate Marketing. image: https://geekboss.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Totoro-at-Studio-Ghibli-1.jpg --- Latest article 4 minute read ## [How to ask someone to be your business mentor](https://geekboss.com/blog/mentor) By [Matthew Stibbe](https://geekboss.com/blog/author/matthew-stibbe) The Beermat Entrepreneur reckons every startup entrepreneur should have a mentor. So do many TV programs about business, from Dragon’s Den to the... 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