by John Murray PhD, Research Director, Linqto Inc. The Linqto team explains and defines Due Diligence, as it pertains to the field of private investing. When individual stock market investors…
By Linqto’s Alan Kerlidou & John Murray The Linqto team is pleased to share the third edition of “Demystifying Private Investing”, a series of informational articles that will provide definitions and…
The practice of raising funds in exchange of company shares. Aside from obtaining additional capital, private placements can also have a goal of adding, with minimal regulatory constraints, new select private investors. The investors participating in a private placement usually are institutions and accredited investors. Despite being privately held, private placements function like stock offerings. As a new generation of shares is being issued, existing stockholders will eventually get diluted and result in lower price per share.
Preferred and Common stock are ownership shares — or ‘equity securities’ — issued by companies. These securities entitle stakeholders to a specific ownership percentage of the company. The primary differences between Preferred and Common stock are voting rights and priority. Holders of Preferred stock have priority when dividends are issued, and will be paid first when the company is sold or liquidated. For example, if a company goes bankrupt, the redistribution of the residual assets owned by shareholders will first be distributed to Preferred shareholders, and the remainder (if any) will go to the Common shareholders.
The recent announcement that Gary Gensler will lead Joseph Biden’s financial policy transition team signals an interesting development in the incoming administration’s position on cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. Gensler, who was previously chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Obama administration, has considerable street cred in the cryptocurrency arena. As a faculty member at MIT, he directs the FinTech program in the Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL) and serves on the board of the Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. In these roles, he mentors graduate students and conducts research on blockchain technology, digital currencies, and macroeconomic policy.
By John Murray, Research Director, Linqto Inc. In the mid-twentieth century, political scientist Joseph Schumpeter developed the theoretical basis for the business phenomenon that he called “creative destruction,” where technological advances launch…
John Murray, Research Director In recent decades, many technology industry observers and policymakers have marveled at Silicon Valley’s success in persistently attracting visionary entrepreneurs and ambitious investors from across the…
by John Murray, Research Director Digital games firm Roblox recently announced that it has submitted a confidential IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company, which was founded in 2004, has…
By John Murray, Research Director When asked to predict financial surprises in 2021, digital assets and payment systems come to the minds of various prominent market analysts. For example, investment…
by John Murray Research Director In the run-up to the US elections, fresh attention is being paid to voting machine technology and the challenges of designing reliable systems that can…