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| Oct 28, 2015 | NASDAQ Private Market Acquires SecondMarket | Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ)’s subsidiary NASDAQ Private Market, a San Francisco, CA-based provider pf equity services to private companies, acquired SecondMarket, a NYC-based provider of solutions for private companies and investment funds to simp... |
| Oct 24, 2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/24/15 | NASDAQ acquired SecondMarket Solutions; Time bought Hello Giggles; Docker picked up Tutum
NASDAQ acquired transaction software provider SecondMarket Solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
SecondMarket will be integrated i... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | NASDAQ Acquires SecondMarket To Help Startups Sell Shares | NASDAQ has agreed to buy SecondMarket Solutions to combine forces with the NASDAQ Private Market. The group will facilitate the exchange of shares for private companies, including DocuSign, Pinterest, Shazam and Tango.
Bill Siegel, present ... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | NASDAQ acquires SecondMarket to expand its reach into private company trading | NASDAQ Inc, the company that owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market and eight stock exchanges across Europe, has acquired SecondMarket, a marketplace for buying and selling private company stock.
Any such move by NASDAQ is notable, given... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | NASDAQ acquires SecondMarket to expand its reach into private company trading | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
NASDAQ Inc, the company that owns and operates th... |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Twilio Offers Early Shareholders Liquidity In Repurchase Offer | Twilio, the startup that lets developers integrate voice, text and other communications services into mobile and web apps by way of a set of APIs, has stayed mum in answer to questions of when it might finally make the leap to go public.
Bu... |
| Jul 10, 2015 | The Secondary Markets Are Becoming The Wild West Again | Bill Siegel Contributor
Bill Siegel is CEO of SecondMarket, responsible for leading all enterprise product operating divisions.
Early this week the WSJ reported that the Securities Exchange Commission is investigating the selling of pre-IPO... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | SecondMarket Sets Up Transfer Facilities For Startups To Manage Secondary Sales | SecondMarket, the secondary transaction manager whose involvement in Facebook’s pre-public offering fire sale of shares arguably hurt the social network’s eventual initial offering, is now launching a new product to put more control over se... |
| Jun 21, 2014 | Three Realities About Venture Capital | This week’s kerfuffle over Yo centered on many facets, but none got more attention than the nascent startup’s $1.2 million in venture capital funding.
The reaction to this investment across the web came in several flavors. Founders complain... |
| May 16, 2014 | Bitcoin Businesses Detail Banking Setbacks at US Task Force Hearing | Representatives from several bitcoin businesses told a panel of state banking regulators today that the current regulatory environment is making it difficult for them to build partnerships with banks.
Executives from BitPay, Xapo, SecondMar... |
| May 8, 2014 | itBit Hires Ex-PayPal Manager and SecondMarket Analyst | Singapore-based bitcoin exchange itBit has announced two new hires it hopes will strengthen its credibility in the traditional financial industry and assure users it is being responsible with their funds.
The company’s hirings are significa... |
| Apr 16, 2014 | SecondMarket to Launch Institutional Bitcoin Exchange | UPDATE (17th April 9:30 GMT): SecondMarket has not yet launched its institutional bitcoin exchange – it's expected later this year. However, the company has added a new page to their website for "market making" as clarified by fou... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | SecondMarket CEO to Launch Regulated US Bitcoin Exchange this Summer | Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of New York-based alternative investment marketplace SecondMarket, has confirmed he will be spinning off the entity's bitcoin businesses into a separate organization dedicated to the exchange of digital curren... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | SecondMarket Takes First Step to Becoming a US Bitcoin Exchange | SecondMarket has taken its first step to becoming a US-based bitcoin exchange, the company's founder and CEO Barry Silbert has suggested.
Silbert took to Twitter today to announce that his alternative investment company is now buying bitcoi... |
| Jan 20, 2014 | South Korean Bitcoin Exchange Nets $400k in Silicon Valley Funding | Updated 21st January
South Korean bitcoin startup Korbit has announced that it will receive $400,000 in funding from various Silicon Valley investors.
If that figure doesn't impress, the names behind it might. The list includes DFC founder ... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Bitcoin juggles promise and peril as a currency and payment system | Article content
While a Texas Senate candidate is accepting Bitcoin campaign donations, and Overstock.com customers can use the technology to buy engagement rings, Wall Street sees its future more as a payment system than a currency. |
| Dec 8, 2013 | Here's How Hot Startups Help Employees Cash Out Before An IPO | Atish Davda/LinkedIn
Atish Davda, cofounder, Equityzen
If you work for a hot startup and you have an equity stake, it's just money on paper until the company goes public or gets acquired.
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But what if you're an employee with a ... |
| Dec 8, 2013 | Here's How Hot Startups Help Employees Cash Out Before An IPO | Atish Davda/LinkedIn
Atish Davda, cofounder, Equityzen
If you work for a hot startup and you have an equity stake, it's just money on paper until the company goes public or gets acquired.
But what if you're an employee with a growing family... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | Bitcoin price soars to highest level since April bubble | The price of bitcoin is currently at its highest level since 10th of April, when the value experienced a massive surge amidst the financial crisis in Cyprus.
In fact, there have only been two days in the history of the digital currency that... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | SecondMarket's bitcoin offering defines new asset class | It's not every day that a new asset class is born. The last time was probably a few decades ago when managed futures funds became an accepted asset class among portfolio managers.
Now, alternative trading system company SecondMarket has lau... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | SecondMarket launches Bitcoin Investment Trust, invests $2 Million | Article updated on October 1 at 11:44 BST.
Private investment vehicle the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) will today (26th September) begin raising capital on SecondMarket, the alternative trading system for private company stock.
BIT, an op... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | What Do the Latest NSA Leaks Mean for Bitcoin? | Could the intelligence community have a secret exploit for Bitcoin? It's rather obvious that Bitcoin presents a very strong financial incentive to break its cryptography, since such a vulnerability could allow an attacker to claim large amo... |
| May 14, 2013 | To Test The Bitcoin Waters, Adam Draper’s Boost.vc Accelerator Adds Backing From Lightspeed, Beluga Founder & More | As a fourth generation venture investor, Adam Draper was pretty much predestined to work with startups. The son of Tim Draper, the founder of global VC firm Draper Fisher Jurveston, Adam has made it his mission to do everything in his power... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | SecondMarket CEO Announces Layoffs: ‘I Admit It, I Screwed Up’ | Mr. Silbert. (Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls)
SecondMarket was having a pretty good week. On Tuesday came a flurry of articles about the startup’s crowdfunding-flavored partnership with Angellist, and just yesterday, CEO Barr... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | SecondMarket Confirms Layoffs To Have Leaner Cost Structure, Become “Break-Even” | SecondMarket’s CEO Barry Silbert just confirmed that the company had layoffs this morning. From a tipster, we had heard it was as much as one-third of the company’s headcount but SecondMarket says it was less than that.
The rationale? Basic... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies | In December, AngelList, a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. AngelList also partnered with Sec... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | This Ex-Feedster Exec Just Sold His $60 Million Company To Intel | Mashery
Oren Michels, cofounder, CEO Intel just bought Mashery, a company founded by a group of ex-Feedster execs, Mashery confirmed today on Twitter.
The terms of the deal were not announced, but Mashery raised $35 million from investors, ... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | This Ex-Feedster Exec Just Sold His $60 Million Company To Intel | Mashery
Oren Michels, cofounder, CEO Intel just bought Mashery, a company founded by a group of ex-Feedster execs, Mashery confirmed today on Twitter.
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The terms of the deal were not announced, but Mashery raised $35 million fr... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Now Backed By Andreessen & More, OpenCoin Looks To Build A Better Bitcoin — And A Universal Payment Ecosystem | Another day, another Bitcoin-related investment, and further affirmation that VCs are hungry to invest in the ecosystem surrounding the decentralized digital currency. Today, OpenCoin, better known as the developer of open source payment pr... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Coinsetter Lands $500K From SecondMarket Founder & Others To Help Bring Leverage, Shorting To Bitcoin Trade | Today, Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder... |
| Mar 24, 2013 | The Crowd’s Money Can Dominate Early-Stage Investing, But Only If The VCs Get Their Cut | Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part guest column by Zach Noorani. Part one examined whether equity crowdfunding is a threat to VCs. Zach is a former VC and current second-year MBA student at MIT Sloan. Follow him on Twitter... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Granola for everyone! SecondMarket puts food startups on the table | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Granola doesn’t often enter the sphere of venture... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | How crowdfunding’s secondary market could evolve | This story was contributed by Charles Luzar of Crowdfund Insider.
One of the more interesting points that emerged from last week’s Sunshine Act meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies was the following recommen... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | How crowdfunding’s secondary market could evolve | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This story was contributed by Charles Luzar of Cr... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | How one entrepreneur plans to fix the ‘broken’ IPO process | For technology founders, an IPO is like marriage: It takes years of preparation, and it’s a pain to have to report to someone, but it’s usually the ultimate goal.
Equidity‘s outspoken founder and CEO, Mona DeFrawi, sees some major structura... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | How one entrepreneur plans to fix the ‘broken’ IPO process | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For technology founders, an IPO is like marriage:... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | 3D Interest: Shapeways Tops Fast-Risers in SecondMarket Fourth Quarter Report | Shapeways attracted lots of eyeballs in the fourth quarter of last year, and not just for stunts like this. According to a report from SecondMarket, the 3D printing marketplace gained interest on SecondMarket’s private stock market at the f... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Employees Made Up Nearly Two-Thirds Of Private Stock Sellers on SecondMarket Last Year | As companies have stayed private for longer, CEOs and founders have gotten savvier about letting early employees liquidate or diversify their holdings in their companies. With several of the heavily anticipated consumer IPOs savaged over th... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | SecondMarket: The Face of Equity Crowdfunding? | SecondMarket announced a strategic partnership with CircleUp last week. This on the tail of a similar partnership with Angellist in the Fall. Both partnerships, currently in beta, fall under the umbrella of SecondMarket+, an initiative that... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Just a millionaire? AngelList and SecondMarket pave the path for ‘micro-venture investing’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We reported last month that SecondMarket and Ange... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | AngelList Gives Smaller Investors A Piece Of The Action With Launch Of AngelList Invest | AngelList, a service that matches early stage startups with investors, is today continuing its transformation from social network to investing platform with the launch of a new feature called AngelList Invest. Created in partnership with br... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Just a millionaire? AngelList and SecondMarket pave the path for ‘micro-venture investing’ | We reported last month that SecondMarket and AngelList had hatched a plan to let accredited investors make small-dollar investments — as low as $1,000 — in Silicon Valley technology startups. Today, we learned that the experiment has been d... |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Transcriptic Raises $1.2M in Seed Funding | Transcriptic, a Menlo Park, CA-based biotech company, has raised $1.2m in seed funding.
Backers include Google Ventures, FF Angel, Mark Cuban, Naval Ravikant, and other investors, who joined via SecondMarket and AngelList.
Founded by Max Ho... |
| Dec 13, 2012 | Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel | Startup biotech company Transcriptic has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ventures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and private investors Mark Cuban and Naval Ravikant. N... |
| Dec 10, 2012 | SecondMarket’s investors set their sights on health tech | All eyes are on healthcare technology startups, but the space is still treated with caution by angel investors and the venture capital community alike.
Most investors don’t have the specialized knowledge to understand the pain-points that d... |
| Dec 10, 2012 | SecondMarket’s investors set their sights on health tech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
All eyes are on healthcare technology startups, b... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | After Facebook, SecondMarket Seeks to Educate Investors on the Next Big Things | SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert.
So you never managed to get your hands on any Facebook shares ahead of the social media giant’s IPO, and given some of the prices paid in the secondary markets, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
You’re fasci... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Consumer Electronics Make Up 75% Of SecondMarket’s Third Quarter Transactions, Social Media Down To 1.2% | What a change a year makes.
SecondMarket, which helps arrange sales for stock of privately-held companies, said three-fourths of its transactions in the last quarter were for consumer electronics companies. E-commerce made up 19.4 percent o... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Liquid Incentive! More Startup Employees Sell Shares Through SecondMarket | Is it a second act for SecondMarket? That might be overstating the case, but the private market’s third-quarter report revealed that a growing portion of the sellers on its platform are current employees putting up shares in their own start... |
| Nov 3, 2012 | Just a millionaire? The only slightly wealthy can now invest in hot startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For the majority of accredited investors, putting... |
| Nov 3, 2012 | Just a millionaire? The only slightly wealthy can now invest in hot startups | For the majority of accredited investors, putting funds in an early-stage startup is no better than pissing thousands of dollars down the drain.
In the past, angel investors have been multi-millionaires, even billionaires. They are classifi... |
| Sep 30, 2012 | Need to cash out a bit pre-IPO? Consider a private liquidity program | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This post is written by Jamie Hutchinson and Brec... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | In A Post-Facebook IPO World, SecondMarket’s Transactions Rise 27% In First Half of 2012 | Facebook and Zynga’s post-IPO performances may have scared many companies off public markets for the time being, but liquidity is still available to certain smaller, private companies. SecondMarket took a look at the privately-held companie... |
| May 31, 2012 | Here's the chart that explains Facebook's IPO mess | (CNET) When Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker was asked about Facebook's IPO during an interview at the D10 Conference Wednesday, she pointed to a key problem: That Facebook's shares were trading on the private market at $1... |
| May 18, 2012 | Charts: Facebook’s IPO In Historical Context And Its Share Price Over Time | Facebook will be the largest tech IPO in history today as the company and its early shareholders raise about $16 billion at the final price of $38 a share. There is also an allotment for them to sell up to $2.4 billion more in the next 30 d... |
| May 18, 2012 | The road to IPO: Here’s how Facebook grew from $3.50 to $38 a share | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s official: Facebook is a public company.
With... |
| May 3, 2012 | Pinterest, Warby Parker And Stripe Are The Rising Stars of SecondMarket In A Post-Facebook IPO World | SecondMarket, which has served as a hub for transactions of pre-IPO Facebook stock for a few years, will have to find some new venture-backed companies to pique investor interest this year. While Facebook is a big loss, there are plenty of ... |
| Apr 28, 2012 | The Seven Forces Disrupting Venture Capital | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
For the past few years, I have read over what seems like hundreds of blogs and thousands of tweets tha... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | You Earn Facebook An Average Of $1.21 Per Quarter | Facebook makes an average of $1.21 on you per quarter, depending on who you are and where you live according to documents filed today. Most of that goes towards running the site, as Facebook’s net income from January 1st to March 31st this ... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Not All Markets Are Created Equal | Editor’s note: Barry Silbert is founder and CEO of SecondMarket. Follow him on Twitter @BarrySilbert.
The SEC recently concluded its investigation of the emerging market for pre-IPO shares of private companies, resulting in charges being br... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | The 15 SXSW Parties You Really, Really Don’t Want to Miss | They are thinking about parties.
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (The LINSANITY! Edition) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can follow him at @garysguide an... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | The Best Tech Events This Week (The NY Giants SuperBowl Champions Edition) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can follow him at @garysguide an... |
| Feb 3, 2012 | The Future of SecondMarket In a World Without Private Facebook Shares | In SecondMarket’s 2011 year-end report, Facebook beat out Twitter, Foursquare, Gilt Groupe, Hulu, Spotify, and more as the trading platform’s number one most-watched company. Facebook has 14,973 “watchers,” almost double the next-closest, T... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Joyent, TRUSTe, Mykonos: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time once again for our irregular, data-driven roundup of local deals, M&A, and other news, from biggest to smallest. The truth is, it’s been a slow week since our last lo... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Forget Facebook, the IPO market is dying, says SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Above: SecondMarket's Mr. Silbert
Bankers and bro... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Forget Facebook, the IPO market is dying, says SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert | Above: SecondMarket's Mr. Silbert
Bankers and brokers nibbled on spinach omelettes, looking out over a sumptuous view of midtown Manhattan, at a private breakfast thrown by Bloomberg Markets on the 29th floor of its Lexington Avenue buildin... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Startup News: Startup Crawl and CES | STARTUP CRAWL. Hosted by out-of-towner Zaarly, Adaptly, Spotify, Unigo and Vayner Media are on the agenda. “It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup offices instead of bars. Each startup will host our group of developers, designers, entrepre... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | SecondMarket’s Still Doing Robust Bankrupcty Business | SecondMarket is most popularly known as a private company equity exchange and indeed, the startup’s fastest-growing business consists of private company stock sales. That would be the Facebook and Twitter and other pre-IPO share shuffling t... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | SecondMarket's Barry Silbert on the death of the IPO | Silbert asks the big question of the day: Why bother going public at all?
Barry Silbert, CEO of SecondMarket, took the stage at Venture Shift and kicked things off with a trip down memory lane.
“Anyone hear of the flash crash on Wall Street... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | The promise of secondary markets | To start selling primary shares - a private alternative to the small IPO
At our upcoming Venture Shift conference in NY, we will discuss the impact of secondary markets on venture finance. We ran a similar panel this sumer at our SF event t... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket Raises $15 M. From Social+Capital | Chamath Palihapitiya
SecondMarket has long been the place where Facebook employees went to sell their private shares. But today SecondMarket will announce that it has raised $15 million from Social+Capital Partnership a new venture fund est... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket raises $15M at $200M valuation from former Facebook exec | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SecondMarket, a company that lets people buy shar... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket Raises $15M in Series C Financing | SecondMarket, a New York-based marketplace for alternative investments, has raised $15m in Series C financing from the Social+Capital Partnership.
The company intends to use the funding to build out its team, expand into new asset classes a... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket Raises $15M |
Marketplace for alternative investments announced that it has raised $15 million in Series C financing from The Social+Capital Partnership, a new venture fund established by former Facebook senior executive Chamath Palihapitiya.
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| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket raises $15M at $200M valuation from former Facebook exec | SecondMarket, a company that lets people buy shares in private companies — including in popular pre-IPO companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon — said it has raised $15 million in a third round of financing.
SecondMarket is reportedly... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | SecondMarket raises $15M at $200 million valuation | Chamath Palihapitiya's Social+Capital Partnership bets on booming alternative-investment marketplace
(Correction: To reflect the valuation.)
SecondMarket is busy making news these days. Just one month after holding its own liquidity event o... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | SecondMarket looking to get in on the Groupon IPO? | SM reportedly emailing people who have previously bought Groupon shares to gauge their IPO interest
Has SecondMarket just become another banker trying to get in on the Groupon IPO? Looks like it—according to a report from Reuters that claim... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Invests $15 Million In SecondMarket, Joins Board | As Erick wrote last week, SecondMarket, the marketplace for alternative investments, has been seeing quite a bit of activity of late. In fact, SecondMarket’s private stock transactions in the first three quarters of 2011 totaled $435 millio... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Update: TechCrunch Ad Hoc Meet-Up In Hong Kong And Shenzhen | I’ve been able to finalize the TechCrunch Shenzhen and Hong Kong meet-ups and thought I’d post here for folks who RSVPed and didn’t get an email response.
The Hong Kong Event (Facebook Link) will be held at 7pm on November 2 at Pier 7 Cafe ... |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Why you need to get to Venture Shift NY | The following post is sponsored by Vator.tv.
There are some rumblings that cash may be drying up for tech startups. Does that mean a shakeout is on the horizon, and angel investor hobbyists are going to go back to their day jobs? Are the no... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Private Stock Transactions Up 73 Percent This Year On SecondMarket | Despite a couple big-name companies like Groupon and Zynga lining up for IPOs, the demand for private company stock on alternative exchanges keeps rising. Private stock transactions on SecondMarket in the first three quarters of 2011 totale... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | SecondMarket Q3 Private Market Results: Soundin’ Kinda Tertiary, Dawg | The startup built to help normal folks like you and me (who happen to have $1M laying around and/or made over $200K in the last two years) can trade in private companies like Facebook and Twitter has released their third quarter private mar... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | During market slump, traders turned to secondary markets to get a piece of hot startups | During a wobbly late summer and early fall in the general financial market, more investors than ever used secondary markets to pin their hopes (and dollars) to a few rising stars in the startup world.
SecondMarket is one such venue. On that... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Achievers, Yammer, Zenverge: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our periodic rendition of the local deals keeping the Bay Area technology sector humming.
$300 million—The amount of fresh capital being handed over to newly independ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Secondmarket’s Barry Silbert Has Been Secretly Eating His Own Cooking | Mr. Silbert "eats his own cooking."
There’s a reason eating your own dogfood is such a successful marketing ploy. It shows you trust your product. Lucky for SecondMarket’s Barry Silbert, his little experiment also netted his share... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | SecondMarket Attempts to Sell Startups on the Value of Letting Employees Trade Their Stock | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Startups usually relish disruption. For a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, there’s no brighter badge of honor than being able to say that your company reinvented a product categor... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | Start-Up News: Baller Edition | YEAH, YEAH. The metal label Century Media, which represents such artists as 3 Inches of Blood and Aborted, is ditching Spotify. “While everyone at the label group believes in the ever changing possibilities of new technology and new ways of... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Two of SecondMarket’s Most-Watched Companies Are From New York | SecondMarket just released its second-quarter report from 2011 and by the looks of things, secondary market investors are as frothy-in-the-mouth as public ones. In the first half of the year, the online platform completed $268 million in pr... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | SecondMarket bends to social media hype again | The market has so far seen $268 million in private company stock transactions, Facebook leads
SecondMarket on Tuesday released its online secondary trading data, revealing that it handled $268 million in private company stock transactions i... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Sequoia, Accel, And Union Square Top SecondMarket’s New VC Scoreboard | Demand for private company shares declined in the second quarter versus the first quarter but was up sharply year-over-year, according to a new report released today by SecondMarket. The market for private company stock saw $112 million in ... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | The Primary Colors of Secondary Markets | Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah.
I find myself conflicted about second... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Favorite Moments From Disrupt NYC Day Two | Day One of Disrupt NYC was packed with all-star speakers and Day Two was just as memorable. All of the photos and videos can be found here and here, but here is a quick breakdown of our favorite moments from Day Two.
The second day kicked o... |
| May 17, 2011 | What you need to know - 05/17/11 | A conversation with Demand Media co-founder Shawn Colo; LinkedIn raises the price of its IPO shares
Bee TV raised $1.5 million from Italian venture capital firm Innogest to fund its new social TV watching app on the iPad.
Dealfind, a local ... |
| May 17, 2011 | SecondMarket Sees $115 Million In Private Stock Sales During Q1 | Are sales of private company shares taking a breather? Demand for private company shares resulted in $115.4 million worth of transactions on SecondMarket during the first quarter of 2011, down from $120 million last year. The value of share... |
| May 17, 2011 | Social media dominates SecondMarket trading | Seven of the top 10 most watched companies on the secondary market are social media strongholds
SecondMarket, an online marketplace for alternative investments, reported Tuesday that it completed $115.4 million in private company stock tran... |
| May 17, 2011 | Foursquare is Most Wanted on Second Market | On the list of private tech companies that investors are eager to snap up on Second Market, Foursquare is hanging in some elite company. It currently ranks number six on the most watched list, behind billion dollar behemoths like Facebook, ... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | SecondMarket Userbase Grew 152% Over Last Six Months | SecondMarket, the web-based trading platform for alternative assets, released a very positive Q1 report today! The service gained more than 18,000 participants in the first quarter, surpassing 50,000 participants–a 52 percent increase quart... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | New rules for the new Internet Bubble | Startups that master speed, tempo and pivot cycle time will win
Carpe Diem
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Va... |