Private markets used to be a members-only club. The Pre-IPO Guide is the plain-English map: who gets in, how shares change hands, and what your startup equity is really worth — so the next breakout company isn't another one you watched from the sidelines.
By the time a company rings the bell, the early growth has already been divided among insiders. The Pre-IPO Guide — written and researched by Secondary Club — explains, without jargon or hype, how retail investors and startup employees can take part in that earlier chapter.
It closes with an exclusive annex available nowhere else: a buyers-only watchlist of 15 private companies, each with our tier rating, access route, and verdict.
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No. The book covers routes for accredited and non-accredited investors alike, and is explicit about which apply to your situation.
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Yes. Chapter seven is devoted to employee equity: options, RSUs, exercise windows, taxes and selling your own shares on secondaries.
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The concepts — valuation, secondaries, lockups, dilution — are universal. Where access rules are US-specific (like accreditation), the book says so explicitly.
No. The Pre-IPO Guide is educational. Private-market investments are illiquid and high-risk — the book says so plainly, and often. See the full disclaimer.
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