Small-time frauds claiming to sell pre-IPO shares of companies like Facebook have already surfaced, according to the SEC.
This is no surprise given that investors are largely indifferent to pre-IPO compensation practices.
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If you thought the Facebook (FB) pre-IPO media buzz was big last year, wait for Alibaba.
The truth is, most pre-IPO investors eventually move on from their venture capital investments.
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Keating cautions investors not to get swept in the pre-IPO hype of companies like Facebook.
At the same time, recent regulatory changes could make pre-IPO funds less appealing for companies.
Pre-IPO investors who came in at high valuations want the company to list at even higher ones.
These companies are high growth, pre-IPO firms that are looking for a leader with experience similar to mine.
The fact of the matter is that both burn rates and overhang are higher for pre-IPO than post-IPO companies.
In addition, publicly-traded stock post-IPO is a different sort of incentive vehicle than one pre-IPO, having virtually no liquidity.
He lured investors with promises of exorbitant returns in purported pre-IPO shares of well-known companies such as Facebook.
One involves John A. Mattera who operated an investment scam peddling pre-IPO shares in Facebook, Groupon and other companies.
Accel will deploy its two new funds exclusively in China, one in early stage deals, one in later stage, pre-IPO deals.
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Before he cocreated two of the five hottest pre-IPO tech companies on the planet, Dorsey gave little sign of brilliant focus.
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The SEC is also charging Kern for falsely assuring clients that their funds had been used to buy pre-IPO shares of Facebook.
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That rule has motivated companies like Facebook to channel pre-IPO stock sales to single, large investors, to keep the shareholder base down.
The stock has come back since, though that does nothing for the customers allegedly snookered into pre-IPO stakes that never actually existed.
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True, the excitement was quite different back in those frenetic pre-IPO days.
Some small outfit may blindside Nortel with newer, faster designs or steal some of its best minds with a pile of pre-IPO options.
The social networking goliath will embark on its pre-IPO roadshow next week, according to PrivCo, a research firm that follows private companies.
At the time, I was in the midst of writing my dissertation at Columbia on what drives pre-IPO and post-IPO success in venture-backed firms.
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As the founder of Kaltix, one of the first companies Google acquired (pre-IPO), Kamvar has long studied data and what it means for user experience.
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And the SEC and FINRA should be directed by Congress to allow the publication of pre-IPO research reports for all issuers and for dissemination to all investors.
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Continued turmoil in the producing ranks at Morgan Stanley could give a big boost to pre-IPO Lazard , which in recent years has become a home to Morgan Stanley defectors.
Silver Lake Waterman will focus on the primary debt market, lending to well-established pre-IPO companies that want to raise additional capital without the dilution from additional equity rounds.
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Either way the two hedge fund managers whose firms piled into Facebook pre-IPO will profit much more than the hedge funds that caused all the trouble for JPMorgan.
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First, SecondMarket changes how pre-IPO companies can compensate their employees.
Groupon is taking a lot of flak today for a pre-IPO S-1 filing that wishes away several hundred million dollars in marketing costs in order to claim something like profitability.
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Early investors like Coleman were restricted from selling their Facebook shares until the middle of August, when some of those shares held by pre-IPO investors were released from lock-up provisions.
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Investors continue to clamor for stakes in pre-IPO companies.
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