Entries tagged “secondary market”
Trading on the Secondary Market
insights June 29, 2011
In recent years, the secondary market for stocks – a platform through which investors can buy and trade shares of private companies – has grown exponentially in size and use. This year, transactions on the online platforms of SharesPost and SecondMarket alone have totaled over $ 4.6 billion, and are projected to exceed $ 6.9…
LinkedIn IPO Far Exceeds Expected Valuation; May be Boon for Secondary Markets
insights May 27, 2011
Recently, LinkedIn went public. LinkedIn is a professional social networking website with over 100 million users, as both alternative and companion to market-dominant Facebook. Recently, LinkedIn went public on the NYSE as LNKD. LinkedIn is a professional social networking website that boasts over 100 million users, and has shown incredible user growth as both an…