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- Sharespost is not for the casual investor who wants to nab a few shares of Facebook for fun. Each transaction incurs a $2,500 fee (for both buyer and seller) from US Bank. And you must be an "accredited and sophisticated buyer" under SEC Regulation D, which limits the universe of buyers to people with substantial invested assets and experience.
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Mar 14, 2012 · The SEC accused SharesPost and its CEO, Greg Brogger, of operating as a broker-dealer -- facilitating deals -- without having obtained a license to do so. (Rival SecondMarket is registered as a...
Jun 30, 2009 · Sharespost is not for the casual investor who wants to nab a few shares of Facebook for fun. Each transaction incurs a $2,500 fee (for both buyer and seller) from US Bank. And you must be an ...
Mar 14, 2012 · The SEC alleges that the fund managers collectively raised more than $70 million from investors. Separately, the SEC charged SharesPost, an online service that matches buyers and sellers of pre-IPO stock, with engaging in securities transactions without registering as a broker-dealer.
Maybe SecondMarket and SharesPost fall into this category as well. But for all of these companies like EquityZen, they claim that they can front you the money to buy your stock but you would owe them some % every year in loan interest. I've heard that the numbers can come out to basically taking off 33% of your total stock share after a few years.
- Full disclosure: I’m an intern for EquityZen , so I’m familiar with this space but can speak with the most accuracy about EquityZen. Observations...
- Stuff I wish I had known, based on having done the following: Obtained employment at a startup that grants Incentive Stock Options (ISOs); Early-e...
- Equityzen has reasonable deals but it only works well for companies with clear IPO plan. Few known limitations (please verify with your sales perso...
Greg Brogger resides in Park City, Utah and is the founder and president of SharesPost, Inc. He has a background in early-stage private companies and founded an incubator that provided seed money for SharesPost. He is the majority shareholder of that incubator, which is a large shareholder of SharesPost. In late 2010, Brogger ceased serving as ...
Jul 6, 2015 · Two executives could conceivably sell shares for different prices, Whitelaw says. And a secondary market for company shares could negatively impact the actual share price, once a company goes...
Mar 15, 2012 · SharesPost Inc. and its president will pay $100,000 to resolve claims that the online marketplace for private-company shares acted as an unregistered broker, as U.S. regulators took their first...
