If you want a piece of Facebook, Twitter or any number of other pre-IPO companies, you need to come ready to play (and pay). To deal directly with these businesses, you need to wield some serious venture capital money. To pick them up in trading venues such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, you need to be an accredited investor (translation: better than comfortably middle class). Well, there’s another way you can get a piece of these companies: GSV Capital.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Grockit, an up-and-coming social network for students, has just received $7 million in its latest round of funding. In previous rounds, Grockit received funding from Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. Led by Atlas Venture, the current round of funding also saw previous investors Integral Capital Partners and Benchmark Capital contribute.
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