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Published December 22, 2009 at 4:25 PM
"The secondary market as an institution was catalyzed by the problems in M&A and the IPO market, but now what's driving momentum in the secondary market is that the markets are picking back up," said Adam Oliveri, managing director, private company market, SecondMarket. Oliveri expects the recent momentum in the IPO market to resume in January after a pause in December. And he predicts that of the potential social networking companies to make a public debut in 2010, Zynga Game Network Inc. is a safer bet than Facebook Inc., LinkedIn Corp. or Twitter Inc. (Subscribers to The Deal Pipeline may read more about Zynga's recent funding here and its newest backer Digital Sky Technologies here.) The Deal spoke with Oliveri on location at the NYSE Euronext as part of our ongoing video series about IPOs. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes. - Mary Kathleen Flynn
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