Finally, some of these marketplaces are designed to facilitate the sale of not only secondary securities sold by existing shareholders such as venture investors, founders, angels and employees but also primary offerings where the proceeds of the sale are used by the issuing company to fund its operations.

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Indeed, the company has relied upon lower prices as the primary incentive to lure shoppers to their offerings, including cloud services.

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