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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 comp… more →

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The Case for a Junior Equity Market — 1 comment

Jason Parsont wrote 1 week ago: The following post comes from Professor Jeff Schwartz of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College … more →

Tags: Securities Regulation, Dodd Frank, junior equity market, NASDAQ, NYSE, SEC, SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies

Lightspeed Anchors Bitcoin Startups in Adam Draper’s Incubator

bitcointoday wrote 1 week ago: May 14, 2013, 11:00 AM By Lizette Chapman Further bolstering the Bitcoin movement, Lightspeed Ventur … more →

Tags: Merchant, MSM, News, TheWallStreetJournal, bitcoin, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Barry Silbert, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, venture

Bitcoin investors rush in: Liberty City Ventures raises $15 million dedicated fund — 3 comments

Erin Griffith wrote 1 week ago: Sick of Bitcoin yet? WELL BUCKLE IN. We’re in for a long summer of Bitcoinery. While it may be … more →

Tags: Tech, adam draper, Barry Silbert, bitcoin, BitPay, bitpremier, Bitstamp Tradehill, Boost VC, coinbase

The launch of the Boost Bitcoin Fund brings more capital to an area of growing investor interest

Michael Carney wrote 1 week ago: Given the recent fervor over Bitcoins, it’s unsurprising to see several dedicate investment vehicles … more →

Tags: Deals, Products, adam draper, Barry Silbert, beluga, Ben Davenport, bitcoin, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Boost VC

AngelList Crowd Funds At The Upper End

JeffKoeppel wrote 3 weeks ago: AngelList, a VC backed crowd funding platform, recently opened its site to companies that can meet i … more →

Tags: SEC, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Investments, broker-dealers, Crowd Fund Act, small business, Wall Street, Funding Portals

SecondMarket CEO Announces Layoffs: 'I Admit It, I Screwed Up'

kfairclothobserver wrote 3 weeks ago: Mr. Silbert. (Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls) SecondMarket was having a pretty good w … more →

Tags: Barry Silbert, Layoffs

Angel investing according to SecondMarket [infographic]

Infocom Analysis wrote 4 weeks ago: SecondMarket just published an interesting short infographic about Angel investing. Source: https:// … more →

Tags: Finance, Market Report, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, angel investor

Cleantech VC and the state of the IPO market — 1 comment

Adam Lesser wrote 1 month ago: This article originally appeared on GigaOM Pro, our premium research subscription service. A couple … more →

Tags: AngelList, Equidity, GEVO, kior, mascoma, Solazyme

Realty Mogul proves real estate crowdfunding works with its first completed deal — 20 comments

Michael Carney wrote 2 months ago: There are few verticals in which a dedicated equity crowdfunding platform is warranted. In most case … more →

Tags: Deals, Products, pandodaily, Microsoft, zillow, AngelList, Seattle, crowdfunding, TechStars

Why IPO should be abolished — 1 comment

Sandeep VishramSingh Yadav wrote 2 months ago: It is a provocative paper arguing that Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) must simply be abolished by A … more →

Tags: finance, Accredited Investor, Business, initial public offering, Privately held company, public company, SharesPost, Venture Capital

Startup employees sold major equity last year, SecondMarket reports

Erin Griffith wrote 3 months ago: Call 2012 the year of cashing in. According to a SecondMarket’s annual report, in 2012, 66 per … more →

Tags: Tech, pandodaily, facebook, Erin Griffith, IPO, Equity, secondary, Secondary trading, Shares

3D Interest: Shapeways Tops Fast-Risers in SecondMarket Fourth Quarter Report

pclarkobserver wrote 3 months ago: Shapeways attracted lots of eyeballs in the fourth quarter of last year, and not just for stunts lik … more →

Tags: AngelList, facebook, Perks, Shapeways, nimble storage, Good Technology

Investor-startup dating service AngelList channels $12.3M in investments in the last 30 days — 1 comment

John Koetsier wrote 4 months ago: AngelList is hot, which I guess is appropriate for a heavenly investment vehicle. The dating service … more →

Tags: Business, Deals, entrepreneur, Social, angel investors, AngelList, ANGELS, Featured, Investment

Five reasons the Facebook IPO bust was a blessing in disguise — 5 comments

Sarah Lacy wrote 4 months ago: One year ago, I was in the process of raising millions of dollars to start a new media company. I ha … more →

Tags: Tech, Deals, Culture, pandodaily, Sarah Lacy, Google, facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, LinkedIn

Angel List Founder Naval Ravikant: "How I Changed The Jobs Act"

Stephen G. Barr, Group Publisher wrote 5 months ago: In perhaps the worst kept secret in venture history, SecondMarket and AngelList have teamed up to al … more →

Tags: crowd funding, angel list, crowdfunding, AngelList, Naval Ravikant, Accredited Investor, Venture Capital, Law, angel list

Finally: AngelList and SecondMarket team up for legal, controlled look-alike to crowdfunding — 1 comment

Sarah Lacy wrote 5 months ago: In perhaps the worst kept secret in venture history, SecondMarket and AngelList have teamed up to al … more →

Tags: Tech, Deals, Culture, Products, pandodaily, Venture Capital, Sarah Lacy, AngelList, & Jobs Act

Transcriptic's wild seed round: "The Internet was just trying to throw money at us" — 2 comments

Sarah Lacy wrote 5 months ago: Just yesterday I was talking to a top VC who said in all earnestness, “I just don’t unde … more →

Tags: Tech, Deals, People, Founders Fund, AngelList, Naval Ravikant, Google Ventures, Transcriptic, Max Hodak

Liquid Incentive! More Startup Employees Sell Shares Through SecondMarket

pclarkobserver wrote 6 months ago: Is it a second act for SecondMarket? That might be overstating the case, but the private market … more →

Tags: codecademy, facebook, Liquidity, meraki

More startups let employees sell shares on SecondMarket amid IPO uncertainty

Ki Mae Heussner wrote 6 months ago: Over the past few years on SecondMarket, the New York-based platform for trading shares in privately … more →

Tags: IPO, startups, Public Markets, Trading Shares, selling shares, private stock market


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