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Bubble Anxiety at Facebook Is a Boon For SecondMarket
If there's one tech scenester not worried about Mark Zuckerberg taking his sweet time to IPO, it's probably New York's Barry Silbert. That's because dotcom bubble déjà vu at the Palo Alto headquarters...
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Wall Street Investment Firm Sues SecondMarket Over $2.4 Million in Facebook...
SecondMarket founder Barry Silbert New York City-based Felix Investments is suing SecondMarket in the New York Supreme Court over a $2,475,000 deal for Facebook shares that never came to fruition....
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SecondMarket’s Barry Silbert Thinks That NASDAQ and the NYSE Are Broken
Via HackNY's Flickr On his blog New York Summer, HackNY fellow Akarshan Kumar has been thoughtfully posting about all the tech luminaries that come to influence young minds towards the start-up life...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Smooth Sailing for SponsorHub: Emerges From Hiding With All-Star Seed...
SponsorHub—a marketplace for brands looking to sponsor quality events—closed a $750,000 round of funding late in the summer, when it was about three months old and six employees strong. The startup...
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The Future of SecondMarket In a World Without Private Facebook Shares
Mr. Silbert 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...
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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...
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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...
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