GD Entertainment and Technology Inc (GDET)

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america is built on people investing in private companies.

now you can even trade private shares
http://fortune.com/2014/08/14/should-you-buy-stock-in-private-companies/

The vogue for owning shares of private companies can be traced to the mania around Facebook. Demand for its shares in the run-up to its 2012 IPO gave rise to frenetic trading on the secondary market—on online exchanges such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, where vested employees and original shareholders sold stock in order to cash in a portion of their stakes. Many had assumed that such trading would wane after Facebook went public, but the opposite has proved true. The practice got another boost from the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (or JOBS) Act of 2012, which allowed companies to take on as many as 2,000 shareholders before registering, up from 500. As the business has grown, the transactions have become more formal, resembling mini-IPOs: SecondMarket as well as Nasdaq Private Market, a joint venture with SharesPost, now specialize in secondary transactions in which the private companies themselves organize sales, or “liquidity programs,” between existing shareholders and select investors.