It's great to have someone with more drive and experience to guide the growth of your business.
In this article, you can find the best places to find these startup advisors.
8 Platforms to Find Them Online
1) GrowthMentor
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GrowthMentor is a platform providing on-demand growth advice from vetted experts. You can start by booking a free onboarding call to discuss your needs after signing up. Then filter through experts and book Zoom, Google Hangouts, or Skype Calls right on the experts’ calendar.
How to sign up: Click the signup button, fill in your information, and make the one-time payment with a credit/debit card. You’ll have immediate access after signing up.
Price: $100/month, billed monthly, or $75/month, billed quarterly.
Things to consider: Over 60% of the mentors offer their sessions for free. For the other 40%, you'll have to pay them per hour (it is not included in the $100/mo plan).
You can filter experts by the tools they use and by their expertise, like growth hacking, social media, content marketing, outbound marketing, and more.
They have a strict vetting process in place for the experts.
2) MentorCruise
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MentorCruise is a platform providing mentorship with tech leaders. There are ongoing sessions a monthly fee or one-time consulting calls.
How to sign up: Click on "Get Started", fill the form with your information, search for the mentor you want through a huge list of candidates and apply for the mentorship.
Price: Depends on each mentor, it can go from $100/month to several hundreds per month.
Things to consider: You can filter mentors by expertise, like entrepreneurship, social media, growth hacking or Javascript skills.
3) Clarity

Clarity is another platform to get on-demand startup advice from experts. Browse the community of experts to find your fit. You then request a call with your chosen expert and connect via the conference line provided.
How to sign up: Sign up for free by clicking the signup button and filling in your first and last name, email, and password.
Price: Free to join Clarity. Then you’re charged for the calls based on the expert’s per minute rate.
Things to consider: There is potential to build a relationship with an expert that results in an advisor, but it’s not the outright purpose of the site. And you’re pre-charged for an estimated call time at first, and then the charge is adjusted for the actual length after the call.
4) CoFoundersLab

CoFoundersLab is a platform that gives you access to over 400,000 potential cofounders, team members, and advisors.
How to sign up: Sign up for the site for free with LinkedIn. You’ll fill out your profile completely for access.
Price: There is a free membership with limited benefits. Then there is a premium membership with everything the free membership has plus more. You can choose a 3-month option for 19.99/month (59.99 billed quarterly). A 6-month option for 16.99/month (102.00 billed semi-annually). And a 12-month option for 14.99 a month (180.00 billed annually).
Things to consider: There’s a 3 step process in place: sign up for free with LinkedIn, complete your profile to activate the matching algorithm, then search by skill, country, city, industry, business stage, or startup experience to find potential advisors, team members, and cofounders. It’s one of the largest startup platforms on the planet. But you’ll absolutely need to do those warm introductions after the algorithm starts the process.
5) MicroMentor

MicroMentor is a free, nonprofit platform connecting entrepreneurs and volunteer business mentors.
How to sign up: You create your profile, highlighting what you do and what you hope to accomplish. You’re then able to reach out to others in the community with messages about your interest in starting a mentoring conversation with them. Start the mentorship with phone calls and getting to know each other, on to goal setting, problem-solving and so forth. Continue that mentorship with development tools provided by the site.
Price: Free
Things to consider: Love that it’s a free social network, but the quality of mentors you’ll get and how much one on one help and for how long isn’t clear. That’s something you’ll need to discuss if you do get to the point of finding a mentor you like.
6) StartupWeekend

StartupWeekend is an experience that consists of 54 hours of life at a startup:
Day 1: Network/pitch/choose a project/build a team.
Day 2: Learn from mentors/Get to work on the chosen project and utilize resources and mentors to do everything from building your product or service to finding customers and so forth.
Day 3: Your team presents the product/service in front of the crowd and expert panel, and when that’s all done, celebrate all your hard work and success.
How to sign up: Every TechStars Startup Weekend event has a corresponding website with a registration page. Start by browsing events in your city here.
Price: Ticket prices vary by event, skill set, and purpose.
Things to consider: You’re expected to participate all 3 days. They send you off with next steps and hopefully, you’ve built a network and resources to carry with you to make your idea a success. Love that it gives you real-life experience and drops you right in the thick of things. But it’s just a weekend and more of an opportunity to network than anything.