In the Pipeline

摘要

Thanks to wrenching volatility, 221 companies have delayed or withdrawn public offerings in the first nine months of this year, including Groupon (the daily-deals site) and Zynga (of FarmVille fame). Those are just the big names. FORBES surveyed venture capitalists, as well as SecondMarket, an electronic exchange for private shares (itself a hot private company), to find less ballyhooed contenders for future small-cap portfolios.