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YES welcomes Facebook Founder Chris Hughes

Alicante, Spain, April 9, 2010 – Today YES-European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs welcomed Mr. Chris Hughes, co-founder of the popular social network Facebook to its EXECOM meeting held in Alicante, Spain. The event was hosted in the auditorium of IFA – Institución Felial Alicantina and was organised in cooperation with CEAJE - Confederation of Spanish Young Entrepreneurs, IFA, Grupo CESCE and the City Council of Elx.

Under the title “Do business with social networks” Mr. Hughes gave his inspiring speech before a large audience. He addressed the participants to tell his fascinating entrepreneurial story dating back to college when together with two roommates at Harvard University, when they started a simple tool to connect students among themselves.

After showing some data to explain the impressive growth of Facebook in the last years – 400 millions of users of which 100 millions are mobile users - Mr. Hughes shared with the audience seven simple tips to succeed. Being lucky an important component of success, his main lesson to young entrepreneurs was to always bear in mind a vision of the world in which they would like to live and try to create it.

He also reminded that being successful means to have an idea that will affect lives of people in a positive way. In this regard, he mentioned his new web start up, Jumo, a platform for voluntarism.