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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2013 – The Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), a private investment vehicle, announced today that it has begun raising capital on SecondMarket. The BIT is an open-ended, private trust ...

SecondMarket laid off about 10 percent of its staff on Friday. Before the layoffs, the New York City-based company employed somewhere between 130 and 150 people, meaning at least 15 people were laid ...

SecondMarket, the largest secondary market for private company stock, and StockTwits, an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments, announced today a collaboration that ...

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