Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They’ve now released last month’s data as well. A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction size of around $2 million. There continues to be very strong demand for consumer products and services startups (which includes companies like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, etc.). But the sellers are spread out more evenly across all categories, particularly consumer, IT, Healthcare, energy and cleantech. 36% of the transactions were sales of Facebook stock, and we’ve heard from independent

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Facebook, Tesla And Solyndra Dominate SecondMarket Transactions In January
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Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They’ve now released last month’s data as well. A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction size of around $2 million. There continues to be very strong demand for consumer products and services startups (which includes companies like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, etc.). But the sellers are spread out more evenly across all categories, particularly consumer, IT, Healthcare, energy and cleantech. 36% of the transactions were sales of Facebook stock, and we’ve heard from independent

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Facebook, Tesla And Solyndra Dominate SecondMarket Transactions In January



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