The only investing subject where almost everything written for retail investors is unverifiable. This course fixes that: it teaches you to read a private company's valuation out of the fund filings that carry it, to check how wrong those valuations have historically been, to price the public routes into a private company in dollars, and to read a lock-up clause out of the prospectus before it expires. Every figure in these lessons is computed live from SEC filings and updates when the underlying data does.
Why this course is different. The figures in these lessons are not written into the pages. They are read at build time from the same four SEC-filing datasets that power our private-markets tools, so the median error you learn in Lesson 3 is the median error as of the last data build — not a number someone typed once.
If you are looking for a list of private companies to buy before they list, this is the wrong course — and the honest reason is in Lesson 1: for most readers, most of those routes are closed by law, and the ones that are open are priced accordingly.
What this course does give you is the ability to check a claim. When someone tells you a private company is worth a given amount per share, you will know which filing to open, how many independent funds stand behind the figure, and how far off the same kind of figure has been on the companies that have already listed. Start with Stock Investing for Beginners first if reading a balance sheet is still new.
Lesson 1 takes 8 minutes and starts with the one question everything else depends on: what can you actually buy?
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