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My original plan was to write a series about starting my eccomerce business; going through the process of finding a market, a product and funding. I still plan to do this, but I would like to talk about something that is far more pressing to me: IP litigation.

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Hi Monkeys,

The WSO community has been such a help for me since my sophomore year when I learnt about investment banking and has been a huge support throughout my entire recruitment process. I've never done a post but the topics and resources that I have read have been fruitful. All of the networking advice, cold-emailing, interview preparation, and even reneging advice has been true for the most part.

So since I have secured an offer, i would like to give back as much as I can by providing any advice and answering any questions (especially for the freshmen/sophomores that are prepping for next year) that I have learnt from my recruiting experience.

For me this really has been a dream come true for my career and I would be glad to provide any insights I can for any of you guys..

Pretty slow with it being the Friday of a long weekend, wanted to know if you guys had anything interesting going this weekend? How many of you will be studying for the CFA?

I'm hitting a concert tonight (Juicy J) then doing some sailing on Sat.

I recently received an message to a comment I made how I was able to break into IB as an intern and would like to provide a nice update to where I am in my career.

Original Story from April 2012:

If you work in banking - even as an intern - you obviously have access to everything in the IB share drive including the WGLs for all deals going on. Esp. for capital raising deals where there will be many banks working together. Less so or N.A. for M&A deals.

Networking is how you lateral over if you want to switch banks after 1 year or 2 years.

Is it wrong or illegal to use the contact information from the WGL to reach out to people at other banks to grow your network? Could you get fired? Or is this a good/smart idea?