SecondMarket, a firm that handles auctions of illiquid assets, including stock in private companies, says it’s seen $124 million worth of trades (in over 78 transactions) in the first quarter of 2010.

As a privately held bank, Lubbock National Bank in Texas has few options for raising capital other than asking local residents to invest. But many people are reluctant to buy shares in privately held ...

While SecondMarket Holdings Inc. is best known for running a private exchange for illiquid shares of the hottest Web companies, the high-profile service is only a small part of its business. The ...

SecondMarket founder Barry Silbert is stepping down as SecondMarket CEO to focus exclusively on Bitcoin. He'll remain Chairman and CEO of SecondMarket Holdings, Inc., but now plans to spin off the ...

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 ...

The listless IPO and M&A markets have not been friends to young companies this past decade. “The median time from a company’s initial funding to either an IPO or an M&A exit has nearly doubled since ...

(Bloomberg) — Back when Mark Zuckerberg was still at Harvard, a guy named Barry Silbert opened a private club for future Facebooks of the world. The idea was this: Let people trade stock in hot young ...

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 ...

SecondMarket has raised $15 million from The Social+Capital Partnership, a venture fund led by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, who will also join the SecondMarket board of directors.

So you never managed to get your hands on any Facebook (META) 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 ...

00:07 Barry Silbert: Barry Silbert. I’m the founder and CEO of SecondMarket. So, SecondMarket is a marketplace for alternative investments. And so we’re creating a platform to bring together buyers ...

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