Wednesday @Mentions September 17, 2014

Happy Wednesday WSO. Just spent 3 weeks stateside, back down to Buenos Aires tonight. Not sure about the rest of the country, but Seattle sure is doing well. Ok on to the @mentions...

Upcoming events:

Join us tonight at 7pm et Thursday for a webinar entitled "Starting your own PE firm" (hosted by John Lenahan, partner of a PE firm since 2008- you won't want to miss this one). See more info here.

Post of the Week:

We Are All Here to Feel a Little Stress by @"Jared Dillian".

Also check out Professor Damodaran's post "Alibaba's coming out party: Valued right, but is it priced right?"

Discussion Topic of the Week:

Calling All Business School Applicants! (WSO Version) posted by @"TwoThrones", 54 comments and counting.

Comment of the Week:

This comment posted by @"FormerHornetDriver" in the thread "The decline of MBA OCR". 6 total sb's, so good I'm going to make it into its own blog post.

Success story of the Week:

Double Break-In: Thanks WSO! posted by @"THE PsYcHoLoGy"

Caption Contest Winner:

Last week's Caption Contest Winner was @"FeedMeDealFlow" with 3sb's, I just pm'd you about your free tshirt!

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Most Active Monkeys in the past 7 days:

1. @"archervice" 127, 2. @"thebrofessor" 110, and 3. @"TNA" with 73

See where you rank here.

New WSO Certified Users:

I wanted to take the space here to thank and congratulate the new Certified Users from the past week. Welcome to the club. Some of these are new members, but all have confirmed that they work in the indicated industry at the level selected on their profile. All Certified Users have a yellow star next to their usernames when posting in the forums, so you all know which sources you can trust the most. As WSO Certified Users, they get i) 3 months free to the WSO Job Board ($45 Value), ii) access to the private Certified User chat room to network with other professionals (priceless) and iii) a free ticket to attend the 2014 WSO Annual Conference in New York on June 28 ($200 Value!). Without further ado:

Investment Banking
@Javier-LG - Mergers and Acquisitions - 2nd Year Analyst
@JeanLocke - Public Finance - 2nd Year Analyst
@intlbanker153 - Mergers and Acquisitions - 1st Year Analyst
@the magnum - Generalist - 1st Year Analyst
@ValueBanker14 - Industry/Coverage - 1st Year Analyst

Private Equity
@FallenA17 - Growth Equity - Vice President
@ModusOperandi - Other - 1st Year Associate
@bananawarfare - LBOs - 2nd Year Analyst

Consulting
@NoName - 1st Year Associate
@Zzari - 1st Year Analyst

Asset Management
@eignenvector - Other - 1st Year Analyst

Accounting
@klb2116 - Other - Manager

Other
@ArcherVice – Other - Principal
@OpsDude - Other - 2nd Year Associate

Are you a working professional and you're interested in joining the WSO Certified User club? E-mail [email protected] and [email protected] your username and send a link to your LinkedIn profile.

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