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For many years, mentoring has been used as the influential career development tool in organizations. From a wider perspectiv e, mentoring is perceived as a way of people development by helping individuals to achieve something meaningful in their lives. However, due to proliferation of entrepreneurial initiatives, now it is not only scrutinized from an intra-organizational perspective, but also it is considered a tool for self-employed development. Therefore, new area for cultivation in the garden of mentoring has emerged: Entrepreneurial Mentoring. Although, its multi-faceted development effect for new ventures is accepted, mentoring is not highly discussed topic in entrepreneurship literature to the best of our knowledge Mathieu, 2015, St-Jean and Audet,2009). Hence, this conceptual study mainly deals with definitional issues, roots of mentoring and how mentoring evolves from career development towards entrepreneurial development perspective. The concern is offering some insights about multiple roles of mentoring, especially for new-start ventures as a supportive mechanism in their entrepreneurial journey.

The focus of this study is to explore the role of individualistic and collectivistic culture and Machiavellian side of the personality on entrepreneurial tendency. Quantitative research method is employed for the study. The survey method was used to collect the data. The scales used were selected after a careful literature review and were adapted to the Turkish culture by using of the method of translation and back translation. The subjects included both undergraduate and graduate students studying at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and at the Social Sciences Institute of a private university located in Istanbul.