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Goldman Sachs is expected to raise a billion and a half dollars more by selling shares of ownership in Facebook to rich investors. The plan does not include a public stock offering -- at least not right now.
The real Mark Zuckerberg and his friends at Harvard University launched the site in two thousand four. Facebook says it reached five hundred million users last July.
The idea is that investors in public companies have protections that investors in private companies do not. The Securities and Exchange Commission says a private company must report financial information if it has five hundred shareholders or more.
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A new business,beats by dre, a startup company, is usually considered too risky for average investors. But a promising startup may find a small number of private investors,louboutin, often known as "angels." These investors are willing to lose everything for a chance at big returns.
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Rikki Tahta has been involved in raising money for startups. He is now chairman of his own investment company,franklin marshall, Covestor,abercrombie, with offices in New York and London.
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In his opinion, the only real benefit for a private company is lower administrative and record-keeping costs. Yet he tells us Covestor remains a private company after a few years because it is still too risky for most investors.
Now, the American bank Goldman Sachs and the Russian company Digital Sky Technologies have friended Facebook. They are investing a total of five hundred million dollars in the company. The deal values Facebook at fifty billion dollars -- more than many publicly traded Internet companies.
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