How did you meet your Mentor and what drew you to them?
ismarc: Honestly, this is going to sound cheesy at first, but it's not, I promise you.  My dad was the first mentor I had.  Entire time I was a kid he was trying to get different businesses off the ground.  After I moved out he actually succeeded for a while, but that eventually imploded.  You see, my dad isn't a very skilled person.  He's lacking a large amount of business sense.  He's really not even very bright.  However, he's one hell of a salesman.  He could always sell the product, but couldn't keep the business together.  I saw him fail repeatedly, and learned from his examples.  Essentially, I had a decade of failed startup experience before I was trying my own.  The end result?  He was a mentor by showing me a large number of ways to fail.