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Ash Egan Contributor Ash Egan leads crypto investing at Accomplice. He formerly was a VC at ConsenSys Ventures and Converge. In the early 2000s, journalists popularized the term “PayPal mafia&#8

NASDAQ has agreed to buy SecondMarket Solutions to combine forces with the NASDAQ Private Market. The group will facilitate the exchange of shares for private companies, including DocuSign, Pinterest,

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

As Bitcoin, the math-based currency that enthusiasts say could revolutionize online transactions, becomes more mainstream, its supporters have been looking for ways to make it more accessible to inves

What a change a year makes. SecondMarket, which helps arrange sales for stock of privately-held companies, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.secondmarket.com/education/uncategorized/q3-2012-sec

SecondMarket, which has served as a hub for transactions of pre-IPO Facebook stock for a few years, will have to find some new venture-backed companies to pique investor interest this year. <a href="h

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/26/private-stock-transactions-up-73-percent-this-year-on-secondmarket/">As Erick wrote last week</a>, SecondMarket, the marketplace for alternative investments,

Demand for private company shares declined in the second quarter versus the first quarter but was up sharply year-over-year, according to a <a href="https://www.secondmarket.com/discover/uncategorized

I find myself conflicted about <a href="http://www.quora.com/SecondMarket?q=Second">secondary markets</a>. My cautionary side wonders how these private stock sales can potentially distort incentives w

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/secondmarket-q1-2011-rising-stars.jpg"/> Are sales of private company shares taking a breather? Demand for private company shares resulted

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<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-281462" title="75" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/75.png" alt="" />Last week, in our weekly report on the insanely hot Facebook stock tr

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/tf.jpg" class="shot2"> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose">Kevin Rose</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tim-