No matter our age or experience, we always need one. I have several mentors under 30 that I work with who attended graduate school with me. Twenty years later, a couple of IPOs and two multi-million dollar sales worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I was left without a mentor. That's not to say that I haven't received a lot of valuable help or sporadic mentoring along the way.
Jason Nazar, co-founder and CEO of Docstoc, and a self-proclaimed apprentice prostitute, explains his secrets to finding and keeping a mentor in this interesting article.