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New WSO Mobile App / Theme

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 on 5/16/13 at 2:41pm

We have just pushed live a new mobile theme taking into account the complaints from the previous iteration.

You will now find bigger buttons and less layout issues related to videos and images...so hoepfully you wont be forced to pinch and zoom in to click and navigate.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,
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WSO Conference 2013 Annoucement - Josh Rosenbaum will be a speaker

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We are pleased to announce that Josh Rosenbaum, MD at UBS and author of Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions, will be speaking again at our conference, joining keynote speaker Jared Dillian.

Full Bio: Joshua Rosenbaum is a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank in the Global Industrial Group. He originates, structures, and advises on M&A, corporate finance, and capital markets transactions. Previously, he worked at the International Finance Corporation, the direct investment division of the World Bank. He received his AB from Harvard and his MBA with Baker Scholar honors from Harvard Business School.

Our early bird tickets sold out but we still have another limited number of discounted tickets available. We are already WAY ahead of where we were last year in terms of ticket sales, so don't risk missing out on this great deal or missing out entirely on the event.

We are super excited about this year, so hope you can join the community in New York on June 29th!


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WSO Site Suggestions...Let Me Hear It!

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It's that time again....the time where you tell me how WSO can improve and I smash my head against the wall and wonder why I didn't think of that earlier... or I tell you that you are crazy.

So please, fellow primates, let me know what annoys you most about WSO and how your day to day on the site could be improved...

Want to hear a certain type of content more? let me hear it.

Want a feature we don't have? let me hear it.

Usually when I do these it's a bit overwhelming for my team, but we also usually get some great ideas over the last few years and have implemented them. So even if something is a great idea and we want to implement it, it may take us a few weeks or even months in some cases if it's a harder technical issue.

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Search Bar Down to Rebuild

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Search bar down temporarily while index is rebuilt...we should have a partial index up in a few hours and full index by tomorrow midday.

Thanks for your patience,
Patrick

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2 Dead and 20+ injured from 3 explosions at Boston Marathon

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At least 2 dead in some sickos bombing a crowded area at the finish line of Boston Marathon today...

I'm about a mile away and of course didnt know anything until a friend gchatted me and asked if all was ok...

craziness. prayers for all the families.

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2013 WSO Compensation Report has Arrived

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After over one year in the making, the 2013 WSO Compensation Report is here!

Access to the FULL 108 page 2013 WSO Compensation Report is 100% free. This report contains thousands of data points across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds and management consulting.

The report cuts the data numerous ways including division, city, AUM and company type and can help you know if you are getting paid enough. Or if you are an employer, this report will give you an idea of what range you should be paying your employees.

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DOWNLOAD THE FREE PREVIEW HERE

Here's how you get access to the full 108 page report:

All we ask from you is to take a few minutes to help us continue to build the most comprehensive and accurate database possible. After submitting three total entries (past entries count) to our Company Database (these entries can either be Company Reviews, Interview Insights* and/or Compensation Datapoints), your entries will be reviewed and you will be granted access to the report within 24 hours of submission (assuming we approve your additions).

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Company Database Update & Other Updates

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So just wanted to make a few quick announcements about the latest changes to WSO...

1. # of entries for Company Reviews, Interview Insights and Compensation Data is now viewable before clicking into a tab...so if there are is no comp data for a specific company, no need to click on the tab. You can see what it looks like in the attached image to this blog post (example, Goldman).

2. We are now collecting additional information with every submission to the database including schools, majors, GPA, race, whether you were a varsity athlete or not, etc....While this data won't be publicly tied to any one particualr piece of content, in aggregate it should help us to create some cool analysis of comp across many different sub-segements...

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WSO Conference 2013 - Keynote Speaker Announced!

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This year we are VERY excited to have Jared Dillian, author of Street Freak, former head ETF trader at Lehman Brothers and author of the investor newsletter, The Daily Dirtnap, as WSO Conference keynote speaker.

After reading Street Freak, I immediately knew that Jared was a perfect voice that WSO needed to hear. Besides being one of the best books I have read in years, Street Freak offers an incredible look into the world of Wall Street in 2008 and years prior, as well as an honest look at his own mental health issues.

Beyond that, Jared also has some amazing stories and is sure to give some great macro perspective on what to expect in the coming years on Wall Street and the overall economy. His investor newsletter is filled with sharp trading ideas and insightful commentary.

Earlybird tickets (60% off) are soon to sell out, so make sure you get in today:


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Some WSO fixes & Improvements Just Pushed Live

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Fellow Primates, just a quick update of some improvements we just pushed live:

1. new links (for comments you havent read) should be working again under the recent menu...in other words, when you click on "2 new" it shoud ltake you to the top of the new comments you havent read...still not sure how this broke but developer found issue

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Facebook Earnings Out

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Still holding onto my puts...looks like the beat wasnt enough, stock off ~8-9% after hours.

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