A little mentoring magic, landing daily

Meet a different founder, brand builder or creative mind every weekday, get practical advice for your business and, if you’re an Inner Circle member, put yourself forward for the chance to be mentored by them.

Sometimes one conversation is all it takes.

A fresh pair of eyes on the problem you’ve been wrestling with. A question you hadn’t thought to ask. Or a founder who’s been there before and can help you see your next move a little more clearly.

So, for National Mentoring Day, we’re doing mentoring the Virgin StartUp way. From Monday 12 October, we’ll reveal a different founder, brand builder or creative mind every weekday for two weeks.

Each Daily Mentor Drop will introduce you to someone worth knowing, the business challenges they could help you crack and one genuinely useful mentoring tip.

And then there’s the mystery mentor. We’ve got one final mentor up our sleeve, but we’re not telling you who it is just yet. Join the Virgin StartUp community and follow the clues as we get closer.

What we’ll cover

With every Daily Mentor Drop, you’ll get:

• A new founder, brand builder or creative mind to discover

• The real business challenges they could help you tackle

• One practical mentoring tip you can put to work

• The chance to put yourself forward for a mentoring session, exclusively for paid Inner Circle members

• A few clues along the way about our mystery final mentor

Just one useful drop, every weekday.

Want more than the email?

The Daily Mentor Drops are for everyone. The mentoring sessions are for paid Virgin StartUp Inner Circle members.

If a mentor catches your eye and you’d like to put your name forward for a session with them, you’ll need to be an active Virgin StartUp Inner Circle member.

And there’s a rather good reason to join right now.

Use code MENTORING2026, an annual Inner Circle membership is £126 instead of £180. That’s £54 off, or 30%. You can use the code against monthly membership too.

Join Inner Circle annually and there’s another little extra: a free ticket to our National Mentoring Day event at Virgin HQ in London on 27 October, worth £45.

Once you’ve joined annually, email community@virginstartup.org with your first name, surname and the email address you used to sign up. We’ll send you a code to claim your free event ticket.

30% off membership. A £45 ticket on us. And the chance to put yourself forward to be mentored by some brilliant people.

Not bad for one little code.

Why sign up?

Because building a business comes with questions. Lots of them.

The Daily Mentor Drops are a simple way to discover people who know a thing or two about the challenges you’re facing and, if you’re an Inner Circle member, potentially get some one-to-one help with what comes next.

First mentor drops 12 October.

Sign up and see who lands in your inbox.

The Daily Mentor line-up

We’re bringing together founders, brand builders and creative minds with real experience of building businesses, solving problems and learning things the hard way. We’ll reveal a new mentor every weekday, with one final mystery mentor revealed last.