When a first-time founder at Silicon Jeri gets stuck on a pricing model or a product decision at midnight, many of them do not open a mentor-matching app. They message a professor who taught them a course six or seven years ago. This is not an official program. Nobody...
A founder’s startup shuts down on a Friday. By Monday, the desk is still there, the wifi still works, and the same coffee shop downstairs still knows their order. What happens next is rarely what outsiders picture. Most people assume failure means the founder...
A first time founder at ZilCubator does not always need a paid consultant. Sometimes the better answer sits one floor up, at a Zil Money desk, and it costs nothing but an hour of someone’s evening. Key takeaways Some Zil Money employees informally mentor...
A finance manager in Dubai can review a Manjeri founder’s cash flow sheet on a lunch break, then join a video call at 9 p.m. local time, and never once set foot in Kerala that year. This is how diaspora mentors work with Silicon Jeri founders today, and it is...
