Venture mentoring is a vital practice to ensuring the commercial success of student-led start-ups, for-profit or non-profit alike. This fast-paced and interactive session will share tools, tips and techniques that new and established mentoring programs can implement immediately. Hear about the good, the bad and the ugly from eight mentoring program leaders in 'Ignite' presentation format (twenty slides auto-advancing every fifteen seconds, five minutes total). From tips on recruiting mentors, to useful tools and software systems, to best practices in ensuring a strong mentor-mentee relationship, this session will cover the gamut. RSVP to this session is encouraged by emailing humera@nciia.org.