Ecosystem Based Management Tools Is it time for private company marketplaces? With the IPO market in the doldrums for some time, and merger activity still scarce, shareholders of venture-backed companies have had trouble getting liquidity for their stock. The dearth of exits has created a new opportunity for companies such as SharesPost, which launched in June 2009, and SecondMarket, both of which are trading platforms for buyers and sellers of private securities. It's an active sector. Recently, SecondMarket just acquired its competitor InsideVentures for an all-stock purchase. In this week's Vator Box, Ezra Roizen (Vator Box regular and digital media investment banker) and I take a look at the prospects of SharesPost. Our guest host is Lorenzo Carver, whose expertise is in understanding valuations of startup companies through his company, Liquid Scenarios. Here are some of our observations: - Providing an online platform to trade shares of private securities is an open territory. - There may be challenges in protecting buyers of securities.
A Matrix for Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets Over the past decade, more and more businesses have come to recognize that man's economy depends on the earth's ecology, and that ecosystem services – from waste treatment and pollination to genetic resources – generate tangible benefits to industry. Furthermore, because these benefits have gone unquantified, they have also gone unpaid for -- and the ecosystems that provide them are in decline. This has sparked a diverse array of efforts around the globe to value and pay for ecosystem services. Many of these Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) efforts – like the booming carbon markets – already channel billions of dollars into projects designed to keep the planet's ecosystem infrastructure alive. Others, however, are less developed. Even in carbon -- by far the most successful ecosystem market to date -- the concepts are emerging, changing rapidly, and dispersed across geography and institutions. Mapping the Markets Commodity Types Payment Types Lay of the Land Promises and Pitfalls
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Reply.com Marketplace | Clicks & Leads FILES REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH SEC FOR AN INITIAL PUBLIC OFFE SAN RAMON, CA – February 22, 2010 – Reply! Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Piper Jaffray & Co. will act as joint book-running managers for the offering with Needham & Company, LLC and ThinkEquity LLC acting as co-managers. The shares of common stock to be sold in this offering are proposed to be sold by Reply! and certain of Reply!’ A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Jefferies & Company, Inc., Equity Syndicate Middle Office, Attn: Stephen M. About Reply!
Marketplace | Clicks & Leads By eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures and large teams of experts, Reply.com makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes.Reply! provides a highly-profitable alternative to online marketing solutions offered by major search engines and ad networks. Reply.com is the leading online marketing platform for the acquisition of locally-targeted and category-specific consumers on a cost-per-click or cost-per-lead basis. By eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures and large teams of experts, Reply.com makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes. At Reply! With the launch of the Reply! Sellers earn a premium for quality, have access to a highly liquid marketplace that maximizes yield, and can more efficiently liquidate inventory.
SecondMarket raises $15 mln from Li Ka-shing SecondMarket, a leading marketplace for illiquid assets, such as private company shares - Facebook, Zynga, and Tesla Motors - on Tuesday announced it's raised $15 million in new funding, giving the company a post-money valuation of $150 million. The new funds come from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, whose investments include Facebook, and Singapore state-owned investment firm Temasek Holdings PLC. I sat down with Barry Silbert, the CEO and founder of SecondMarket, for the lowdown of where he plans to spend his new-found capital cushion, and why he even raised $15 million when his company already had $15 million in the coffers. "It's the investors," said Barry, explaining that many of the new demand for stock available on SecondMarket has come from Asia. "Over the past six months, we've seen a lot of interest from Asian investors," he said. Barry also plans to take the additional funds and make acquisitions.
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