Is Nasdaq’s new private market the exchange’s last hope in a web-driven world?

After multiple attempts -- and failures -- at trading for small, early-stage companies, Nasdaq is betting the private-equity farm on SharesPost's technology. Is this enough to erase the Facebook fubar?

Nasdaq, SharesPost take private markets semi-public with new SF-based venture

Want to buy shares in Twitter? Pinterest? Palantir? Nasdaq wants to help you out with that -- and it might be able to as soon as this year.

Granola for everyone! SecondMarket puts food startups on the table

Online investing platform SecondMarket partners with CircleUp, which crowdfunds consumer goods companies looking to grow.

Investor-startup dating service AngelList channels $12.3M in investments in the last 30 days

AngelList is hot, which I guess is appropriate for a heavenly investment vehicle.

Just a millionaire? AngelList and SecondMarket pave the path for ‘micro-venture investing’

We reported last month that SecondMarket and AngelList had hatched a plan to let accredited investors make small-dollar investments -- as low as $1,000 -- in Silicon Valley technology startups. Today, we learned that the experiment has been declared a success, and this partnership will continue with a new batch of hot startups.

SecondMarket’s investors set their sights on health tech

SecondMarket has teamed up with digital health accelerator Startup Health for the month of December to encourage its network of accredited investors to fund health tech startups.

Just a millionaire? The only slightly wealthy can now invest in hot startups

SecondMarket and AngelList reveal the results of their first trial. Now, accredited investors can put small dollar amounts into hot startups.

JOBS Act passes House: What the new crowdfunding bill would mean for startups

The JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act that passed in the House today contains some big changes for crowdfunding startups. It now moves on to the Senate.

Right now, it’s illegal for a startup to solicit investors on platforms like …

Twitter employees frustrated by golden handcuffs, can’t sell more than 20% of their shares

It must be frustrating to be an early Twitter employee. All around Silicon Valley, companies in the social networking space are going public, minting hordes of new millionaires and billionaires. But with little revenue of its own, Twitter is hoping …

Obama calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at helping startups

A day after showing his techno savvy with an appearance in a Google+ hangout, President Obama is calling on Congress to pass new legislation that would aid startups, and put them at the center of an agenda, “Startup America,” focused …

Forget Facebook, the IPO market is dying, says SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert

Bankers and brokers nibbled on spinach omelettes, looking out over a sumptuous view of midtown Manhattan, at a private breakfast thrown by Bloomberg Markets on the 29th floor of its Lexington Avenue building. Barry Silbert, the baby faced founder and …

SecondMarket raises $15M at $200M valuation from former Facebook exec

SecondMarket, a company that lets people buy shares in private companies — including in popular pre-IPO companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon — said it has raised $15 million in a third round of financing.

SecondMarket is reportedly now worth …