{"id":384162,"date":"2010-03-03T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-industrials-for-startups-pre-ipo-index-opens-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-03T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:22:00","slug":"dow-industrials-for-startups-pre-ipo-index-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384162","title":{"rendered":"Dow Industrials For Startups? Pre-IPO Index Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4aaeb641d4ef70692a383159\/startup50jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"startup50.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &mdash; Because startups aren&#8217;t required to report regular financial results as publicly traded companies are, it can be hard for outsiders to get a sense of what hot ones like Facebook and Twitter are really worth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a private online stock exchange hopes to shed some light on the subject by rolling out an index that reflects the changing values of such companies.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, SharesPost is releasing an index that will track the values of seven startups over time. It&#8217;s similar to the way the Dow Jones industrial average measures the value of a basket of big stocks.<\/p>\n<p>SharesPost founder Greg Brogger says the index will help investors and startup employees get a sense of what emerging companies are worth in real time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-industrials-for-startups-pre-ipo-index-opens-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-wont-be-a-multi-billion-dollar-company-for-many-years-2010-3\">REVEALED: Facebook&#8217;s 2009 Revenue Breakdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-twitter-rolling-out-new-web-site-to-kill-tweetdeck-and-other-third-party-clients-2010-2\">Twitter Rolling Out New Web Site To Kill TweetDeck And Other Third-Party Clients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/twitters-ad-plan-copy-google-2010-2\">Twitter&#8217;s Secret Ad Revenue Plan Revealed: Copy Google<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/PqnbJfKqz70\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &mdash; Because startups aren&#8217;t required to report regular financial results as publicly traded companies are, it can be hard for outsiders to get a sense of what hot ones like Facebook and Twitter are really worth. Now, a private online stock exchange hopes to shed some light on the subject by rolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}