Mentor Makers

Our goal is 1 million mentor hours ignited by 50,000 community mentors in support of entrepreneurs. Mentor Makers is both a free mentor matching platform for entrepreneurs across all races, industries, geographies and a movement to inspire successful business leaders from traditional and non-traditional backgrounds to offer their time and expertise as exceptional mentors. Entrepreneurs are the dreamers, doers, visionaries who are not only solving problems our community and world is facing today, but those that will create a better future for us all. Mentorship matters to all entrepreneurs; their success is dependent on it. The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, along with our partner MentorCloud, feel strongly there is more to be done to support ALL business owners, today, as they navigate this crisis and build from survivability towards recovery and opportunity. Industries, markets, technology, customers are rapidly changing around them at a faster pace than ever before. The one constant in business, both current and future state, is that entrepreneurs are visionary leaders making something out of nothing and hiring talent at rates exceeding any other industry. These entrepreneurs need our support for their benefit and for ours. As Dr. Laura A. Jana, pediatrician and author of the Toddler Brain states, “from birth to death, the most important contribution to positive human development is a caring, responsive adult.” This applies explicitly to business.