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Delta Sigma Pi Industry Panel TONIGHT!

Join us for a night of networking and see how far Delta Sigma Pi’s connections go. Meet professionals from different industries; ask questions and learn more about what they do.

Panelists:

Effie Papadopoulos | Organizational and Marketing Expert/ Consultant 
Gabriel Valencia | Game Developer at FireForge Games
Bart Young | CEO at Young Company
Martyn Christian | CMO at Kofax
Felix Du | Pi Sigma Alumni + Financial Analyst at Experian

Tuesday | Industry Panel + Networking Event
Crystal Cove Auditorium | 7 - 9PM
Business Professional Attire

‎UCI Delta Sigma Pi | Spring Recruitment 2012 STARTS TONIGHT!

Join the Brothers of Delta Sigma Pi for our formal Mocktail Night. Learn more about what our professional business fraternity has to offer and what we’re all about. Business and brotherhood all in one. Get the chance to network and share interests with brothers in the same fields as you.

Date: Monday, April 9, 2012
Location: Emerald Bay A
Time: 7 - 9 PM
Attire: Business Professional/ Mocktail

Hope to see you there!

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Get Ready for Gas Prices to Hit $5 by Summer

The price of gasoline continues to go up and economists are keeping a watchful eye to see if it will slow down the U.S. economic recovery.

Every year around this time, as we get closer to the start of the summer driving season, we find ourselves talking about the price of gas. John Hofmeister, former Shell Oil USA operations president and founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy, recently talked with NetNet’s C-Suite about what factors he is looking at when formulating his oil outlook.

 JH: There are several factors I look at: Domestic production: what is the level and how believable are the numbers we are getting from the EIA? The administration is suggesting overall production is up. It is up in an absolute sense. However, they are counting gas shale production. But that does nothing for diesel and gasoline consumption. Gas shale cannot be refined for transportation fuels.

The second thing to watch is growth demand in both India and China, which is growing 10-12 percent a year.

By 2015, China will need about 5 to6 million of new barrels a day to meet its new consumers. China’s fleet is growing in double-digit percentages. More and more Chinese who have never had a car are buying new vehicles. That is going to increase their gasoline demand.

Third thing to watch is the spread between Brent and West Texas. With the closing of three refineries on the east coast, the North East population will be importing Brent imports, which is at a higher price. Sunoco and Texaco both closed refineries because they could not get the West Texas crude at a lower price. It’s more difficult to get the oil from the West Coast because of the lack of infrastructure. It is easier to bring in finish product from Europe. All of these will have an accumulative impact on the price of gasoline.

LL: Where do you see the price of gas this summer?

JH: We will be on our way to five dollars on a national average. This could impact the U.S. recovery. If you turn the clock back one year, we were seeing these prices in February and the economy slowed in May, June and July and it became a grave concern of the administration. People pull backed on spending. It’s essentially an invisible tax.

LL: If we could expand our energy exploration here, how much could it lower our price of gasoline?

JH: We would need to set a target of 10 million barrels a day plus, 2 million barrels a day of biofuels and have more efficient vehicles on the road. That would take about 80 percent of our daily demand. That’s an equivalent of 15 million barrels a day. If this all happened we would end up with $2.50 gasoline. It’s utter failure of not just this administration but past administrations to not to take domestic production seriously.

America’s 10 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under

Top 10 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under:

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 No. 1 Larry Page

Google

Market Cap: $199.05 billion

Age: 38
 

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No. 2 Andrew Mason

Groupon

Market Cap: $12.41 billion

Age: 31

 

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No. 3 Kevin Plank

Under Armour

Market Cap: $4.27 billion

Age: 39

No. 4 Andrew Silvernail

IDEX Corporation

Market Cap: $3.54 billion

Age: 40

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No. 5 Elon Musk

Tesla Motors

Market Cap: $3.28 billion

Age: 40



No. 6 Mitchell Krebs

Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation

Market Cap: $2.42 billion

Age: 40

Courtesy of Ubiquiti Networks

No. 7 Robert Pera

Ubiquiti Networks

Market Cap: $2.27 billion

Age: 33

Courtesy of Generac Holdings

No. 8 Aaron Jagdfeld

Generac Holdings Inc.

Market Cap: $2.00 billion

Age: 40



Courtesy of Steve Madden

No. 9 Edward Rosenfeld

Steven Madden, Ltd.

Market Cap: $1.72 billion

Age: 35

Courtesy of UMB Financial Corporation

No. 10 J. Mariner Kemper

UMB Financial Corporation

Market Cap: $1.64 billion

Age: 39

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15 Jobs That Have Increased Salary During The Recession

1. Physician Assistant - $87,900
It isn’t too surprising to learn that the fastest growing annual salary careers are in the healthcare sector. Physician assistants provide an extension of the services a doctor provides. They are supervised by a physician, but work independently. The degree of independency depends on the agreement. This field has experienced an 8.9% increase in the median annual salary.

2. Physical Therapist - $71,000
Physical therapists, or PTs, work with a wide variety of patients who are experiencing pain or a loss of mobility. They also help prevent injury and work to strengthen particular areas of muscular weakness. This kind of rehabilitation is very common after an injury such as a broken limb or after a car accident, and those who practice it have also seen an increase in their median annual salary of 8.9%.

3. Registered Nurse - $58,000
According to the BLS, registered nurses (RNs) make up the largest healthcare profession with over 2.6 million jobs in the United States. The majority of RN jobs are in hospitals treating patients. RNs generally hold a four-year degree and specialize in a particular area of medicine, such as surgery. This profession has also seen an 8.9% increase in median salary since 2006.

4. Marriage and Family Therapist - $48,900
Maybe it’s an increase in financial stress, or the fact that the divorce rate is at 50% in the U.S., but this profession is doing quite well, experiencing an 8.1% salary increase since 2006. Marriage and family therapists assess clients and help them set and achieve goals for their lives.

5. Medical Case Manager - $45,700
Medical case managers, sometimes called case managers or nurse case managers, are healthcare professionals who oversee the treatment and care of patients. These professionals often come from a nursing background, and help to advocate for the patient as well as educate them. This career has seen an 8.1% increase in annual salary in the past six years.

6. Mental Health Counselor - $40,500
As awareness of mental health issues increase, so too does the demand for the professionals able to treat those issues. Those that do have seen an 8.1% increase in their annual salary. These trained professionals counsel families, individuals and couples through a variety of life issues.

7. Clinical Research Associate (CRA) - $78,600
As the name suggests, CRAs assist in the design, execution and implementation of clinical trials. According to the Michener Institute, which offers a 16-month certification in this field, CRAs may also assist in conveying findings to the research community. This field has experienced a 7.5% growth in annual salary.

8. Project Manager, Environmental - $57,200
Another job title that has seen a 7.5% spike in salary is the environmental project manager. This growing field oversees bidding on projects, organizing timelines and ensuring the work is completed with minimal risk.

9. Research Associate, Biotechnology - $53,400
A research associate works in a university or in another research setting assisting with projects led by senior advisors. In particular, those working in the biotechnology sector, the study of using living organisms to create or enhance products (such as genetically modified food), have enjoyed a 7.5% increase in median salary.

10. Biomedical Engineer - $73,900
Engineers are often in high demand, and those who specialize in the biomedical field may have noticed the 7.1% spike in salary. Biomedical engineers work on projects that integrate engineering with healthcare. Examples are pacemakers or artificial hearts.

11. Electrical Engineer - $71,900
Another engineering field that has seen a 7.1% increase in salary is electrical engineering. These practitioners design new and improved circuits, according to the BLS.

12. Project Manager, Architecture - $51,300
Architectural project managers, like their environmental counterparts, are responsible for overseeing projects from inception to completion. On average, they have also seen a 7.1% jump in annual salary.

13. Software Developer - $72,500
Software developers (or software engineers) design, create, evaluate and troubleshoot computer software. The median annual salary for this field has jumped 6.3% since 2006.

14. Senior Software Engineer - $85,800
Senior software engineers will also perform the duties of a software engineer, but in addition they will delegate such tasks to a team to reach a common goal. The median annual salary for this title has also increased by 6.3%.

15. Web Developer - $54,800
This new media career has also seen a 6.3% growth in salary. Instead of software, these developers are focused on creating and maintaining websites. This may include elements of graphic design as well as coding the functionality of the site.

Silicon Valley: The rise of the adolescent CEOs

By Sarah McBride

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers.

There’s one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he is not old enough to drink. His fake ID was recently confiscated, and the two new ones he ordered from a company in China have not yet arrived.

Such are the dilemmas facing the ever-younger entrepreneurs that Silicon Valley investors are backing these days. While little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before.

“At a certain point, they can’t get much younger or we’re going to be invested in preschool,” quipped Marc Andreessen, whose venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is one of several that backs Buckley’s company, MinoMonsters.

Andreessen and other venture capitalists say the entrepreneurs they fund at 18 or 19 typically have been prepping for years — learning computer code, taking on ambitious freelance projects and educating themselves on the Internet.

Some are self-consciously molding themselves in the image of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 27, who created computer games as a child and was taking a graduate-level computer course by his early teens.

Internet businesses that target consumers make a sweet spot for the baby-faced, because online companies often require relatively little capital. A semiconductor start-up might require $10 million to $20 million in the early stages, noted Joe Kraus of Google Ventures, and that would be tough even for the most talented youngster.

“If I’m going to write that big a check, I’m going to invest in people who’ve done it before,” he said. “But if you look at it as, ‘Hey, I’m going to raise $500,000,’ there’s a lot of ways to raise that.”

Kraus helped back Airy Labs, an educational social-gaming company run by 20-year-old Andrew Hsu that raised $1.5 million. Hsu is now learning the same hard lessons as many of his elders: the company recently laid off staff and is looking to rent out some of its office space in Palo Alto, California. Hsu said the company is taking a different direction and focusing on a line of new products in math, language arts and science.

Kraus said his biggest hiccups with young entrepreneurs are the business references they don’t understand because they are too young to be aware of them.

Andreessen says more than one young entrepreneur has asked him: “What did Netscape do again?” Andreessen co-founded Netscape, which developed the first commercial Web browser and helped launch the Internet era, shortly after graduating from college in 1993.

“I was 9 years old” during the first Internet boom, says Brian Wong, 20, who runs reward-network Kiip. He has had his fill of stories about companies that tanked amid the dot-com bust of 2000. The first time he heard the name Webvan, a legendary dot-com failure, “I had to look it up,” he recalled.

Wong has raised more than $4 million from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and others.

He believes his age helps him and other youthful entrepreneurs. “You’re expected to be limitless,” he said. “Kind of destructive.”

While the freewheeling ways of youth may be a positive for venture capitalists, they are less appreciated by landlords. Tim Chae, the 20-year-old chief executive and co-founder of social-media marketing company PostRocket, said his age and lack of credit created problems when he moved to San Francisco last year and needed an apartment. Finally, his father had to drive the 88 miles from Sacramento to co-sign a lease.

Chae, a Babson College dropout, now lives in nearby Mountain View and attends 500 Startups, a crash course for young companies run by a venture firm of the same name. He has raised a small amount of capital and hopes the upcoming Facebook IPO will help investors look more kindly on young entrepreneurs. “Thank God for Zuckerberg,” he says.

Zuckerberg, who left Harvard after two years, is helping recast the notion of dropping out of college. Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal, is encouraging others to try that path through two-year fellowships for students who take a break from school, move to San Francisco and pursue their entrepreneurial aspirations.

That’s what 17-year-old Laura Deming did when she won a fellowship based on her goal of finding and funding anti-aging technologies and left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Because she is not yet 18, she finds herself faxing documents such as non-disclosure agreements to her dad back in Boston to co-sign.

Other young entrepreneurs have trouble negotiating the highways and byways of Silicon Valley quite literally. Sahil Lavingia, 19, recalls a day last summer when he had several meetings scheduled on Sand Hill Road — home to many of the nation’s leading venture-capital firms — and no car to get there. The journey of just a few miles took hours by the time Lavingia rode a local train a couple of stops, caught a bus to Stanford University and then hopped a shuttle bus to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which is on Sand Hill Road.

Another time, dreading the combination of a hot day and a sweaty walk around Palo Alto, he pulled on a pair of shorts, even though he was heading to a meeting with blue-chip VC Accel Partners. The outfit — casual even by laid-back Silicon Valley standards — didn’t stop Accel from investing. Lavingia, an alumnus of hot online bulletin-board company Pinterest, raised $1.1 million for his payments start-up, Gumroad.

Buckley also ran into problems getting himself to Sand Hill Road. One night he stayed up until 3 a.m. and slept too late to get to a scheduled meeting with a venture-capital firm. “It didn’t go down too well,” he said, adding that his profuse apologies and requests to reschedule were met with a curt “no thank you.”

Not to worry. Buckley, who had already sold a company while in high school for a sum he says was in the low six figures, raised more than $1 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others.

At the time of the missed meeting, he was attending Y Combinator, a three-month program for start-ups. In a nod to the boy wizard of book and movie fame, Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has called Buckley “the Harry Potter of startups,” but said he was not the youngest to win admission to the program.

That honor goes to John Collison, now co-founder of payment company Stripe, who was admitted at age 16, but did not go through the program, Graham says. Instead, he and his then-19-year-old brother merged their company with another, Auctomatic, and sold it to a Canadian company for $5 million in cash and stock.

Most of the young entrepreneurs say their interest lies in building rather than selling their companies. Buckley had to say as much in response to inquiries he said received recently from Facebook about a possible sale. His determination not to sell stems from advice he received from a successful executive he met last year at Y Combinator: Mark Zuckerberg.

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Completely agree with Number 2.