Unless you’re ultra-wealthy or willing to chance the vagaries of the secondary markets, you can’t invest yet in hot social networking companies like Facebook, Zynga or Groupon. But soon there may be an alternative: a new fund c…
Facebook and many other tech startups have realized that the hassles and headaches of an IPO in the U.S. aren’t always worthwhile. Thanks to willing venture capitalists and private investors, it’s easier than ever for tech comp…
Look for Chinese companies to keep the U.S. IPO pipeline primed in 2011, coming off a year when they accounted for nearly a third of U.S. offerings. But they’ll be less prominent on private exchanges like SharesPost, Second Mar…
The biggest names in social networking — Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn — haven’t yet gone public, but their stock does get traded by the very rich on private exchanges. Now, some of those transactions have raised the …