Fred Wilson
on August 30, 2010 
When you want to look up information on publicly traded companies, it helps to know the ticker symbol. Microsft's ticker is MSFT, Google's ticker is GOOG, Apple's ticker is AAPL. Every publicly traded company has a ticker.
But private companies don't have tickers. And as more and more private companies are attaining status and drawing the attention of mainstream media and the investment community, it is time for that to change.
Yesterday Stocktwits and Second Market proposed a set of tickers for popular privately held companies. The proposed list of tickers is here.
I am a VC. I have been since 1986. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but it's getting better. I am the Managing Partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures. I also write at 
Andrew Bellay
on July 29, 2010 
Andrew Bellay is the VC & Money editor of AlwaysOn. Feel free to send me cool content, new products you'd like reviewed, or any crazy idea and I'll check it out: andrew@aonetwork.com. 
