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NYSE Euronext will host the second annual “Mentoring Madness” event at the New York Stock Exchange in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week. In honor of the occasion, NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, Rapper Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus, TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie, BR Guest Restaurant Group Founder & President Stephen Hanson and Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht Kick Off the "Mentoring Madness” Event at the NYSE with The Opening BellSM.
 Second annual “Mentoring Madness” event - Learn more about this year's participating entrepreneurs.
On Monday, November 16, NYSE Euronext will host the second annual “Mentoring Madness” event at the New York Stock Exchange in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week. At this year’s event, Maria Bartiromo, anchor of CNBC’s "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” and managing editor of the nationally syndicated "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," will host a discussion with four successful entrepreneurial CEOs -- Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus, Rapper and Entrepreneur; Blake Mycoskie, Founder of TOMS Shoes; Stephen Hanson, Founder and President of BR Guest Restaurant Group and Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group. These leaders and entrepreneurs will discuss the pivotal points in their business plan development, as well as talk about their major influences, taking their ideas to the next level and the resources they used to accomplish their dreams.
Following “Mentoring Madness,” the CEOs will judge the three finalists of the “Movers and Changers” competition, a nationwide search collaborated by NYSE Euronext and mtvU for inventive capitalists with promising, innovative business plans. The finalists of the “Movers and Changes” contest will be featured in the new mtvU “Movers and Changers” four-part short film series and win the ultimate prize of $25,000 new business seed money.
About Global Entrepreneurship Week
With the goal to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big, turn their ideas into reality, and make their mark. From Nov. 16 - 22, 2009, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things. Tens of thousands of activities are being planned in dozens of countries. Global Entrepreneurship Week is founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Make Your Mark campaign. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org, and follow @unleashingideas on Twitter.
About NYSE Euronext's Global Entrepreneurship Sponsorship
A cornerstone of the NYSE Euronext brand is a commitment to innovative thinking and the ability to introduce new concepts and products. We are a proud sponsor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination, and creativity. The Week will connect young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others will participate in a range of activities - online and face-to-face - to harness the energy of social networking, to connect people taking action in their local and global communities and to celebrate entrepreneurship across the globe.
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