{"id":2559,"date":"2009-06-17T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T18:01:40","slug":"wanna-buy-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/wanna-buy-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Buy Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/06\/sharespost.gif\" alt=\"Screenshot of Sharespost\" width=300 \/><\/div>\n<p>Given the Twitter-mania that seems to be sweeping the world, it would be a public service to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharespost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Sharespost<\/a>, the passive bulletin board to connect buyers and sellers of private equity of hot companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Tesla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eharmony.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >eHarmony<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/solarcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >SolarCity<\/a>, and a couple of hundred more.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is really a very good idea as shareholders of privately held startups have never had such a convenient was to transform their shares into cash in advance of &#8220;the liquidity event&#8221; all startups attempt to catalyze. Now, this isn&#8217;t like opening an E-Trade account, it&#8217;s more involved and expensive than that. To keep the riff-raff out, the minimum transaction size is $25,000 and there is a flat $2,500 transaction fee payable to US Bank.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn order to stay in the good graces of the Securities and Exchanges Commission, Sharespost is simply putting qualified Buyers and Sellers in a place to have a private conversation and making pertinent information about both parties and the companies available for faster and more efficient decisions. So I say kudos to Greg Brogger &#038; Co to providing a much needed and potentially very useful service to shareholders and buyers alike.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the Twitter-mania that seems to be sweeping the world, it would be a public service to talk about Sharespost, the passive bulletin board to connect buyers and sellers of private equity of hot companies like Twitter, Tesla, eHarmony, Facebook, SolarCity, and a couple of hundred more. This is really a very good idea as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[893,894,892,896,895],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}