Trading in shares of Facebook has been particularly strong in the past month. The surge began after a big transaction in November, when venture-capital firm Accel Partners, an early backer of the social-networking firm, sold less than 15% of its stake for $517 million, say people familiar with the deal. The deal, some details of which were reported on tech blogs, valued Facebook at around $35 billion, those people say.
Soon after the sale, Facebook's trading volume and price surged on SharesPost and SecondMarket, two exchanges that allow trading of closely held firms' shares. In the past month, the average valuation of Facebook based on transactions on SharesPost has risen almost 25%, to more than $56 billion, the exchange said. SecondMarket said Facebook's valuation had risen about 12% over the same month. Such differences are possible because these aren't public markets.
Facebook trading is the most visible part of a growing market for shares of private tech companies. SecondMarket and SharesPost, based in New York and the Los Angeles area, respectively, began offering trading of private-company stock in the first half of 2009.
SecondMarket said it has transacted nearly $400 million in private-company stock this year, up from about $100 million last year. SharesPost declined to cite dollar figures but said it did 50 private-company stock transactions in its first six months of operation and 150 in the 12 months since.
Soon after the sale, Facebook's trading volume and price surged on SharesPost and SecondMarket, two exchanges that allow trading of closely held firms' shares. In the past month, the average valuation of Facebook based on transactions on SharesPost has risen almost 25%, to more than $56 billion, the exchange said. SecondMarket said Facebook's valuation had risen about 12% over the same month. Such differences are possible because these aren't public markets.
Facebook trading is the most visible part of a growing market for shares of private tech companies. SecondMarket and SharesPost, based in New York and the Los Angeles area, respectively, began offering trading of private-company stock in the first half of 2009.
SecondMarket said it has transacted nearly $400 million in private-company stock this year, up from about $100 million last year. SharesPost declined to cite dollar figures but said it did 50 private-company stock transactions in its first six months of operation and 150 in the 12 months since.
La registrazione ai due siti menzionati nell'articolo, SecondMarket e SharesPost è gratuita e consente l'accesso a molte informazioni su alcuni dei nomi più celebri del Web e più in generale del mondo della tecnologia. Ad esempio su SharesPost trovate valutazioni e offerte sia in acquisto che in vedita di azioni di Digg (stimata intorno ai 200M di dollari ma che scambia su valutazioni implicite inferiori ai 100M), Facebook, hi5 (poco liquida...), Linkedin (con valutazioni implicite intorno ai 2 miliardi di dollari), Twitter (scambiata recentemente con una valutazione implicita poco inferiore ai 5 miliardi di dollari) e Zynga, tanto per limitarsi ai nomi più celebri. Nel database di SecondMarket trovate informazioni interessanti sulla struttura societaria (Key Executives, Financing Rounds, statistiche sul numero di visite al sito web, ecc.) di 546 società che includono altri nomi famosi come AVG (antivirus), BitTorrent (p2p software), Covestor (portfolio-sharing), Craigslist, Dropbox (sincronizzazione e files sharing), Mozilla, Oanda, ecc.
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