Provision of an online marketplace that connects potential investors, buyers and sellers of companies; providing an on-line marketplace for companies to list investment opportunities, sell securities to investors, and facilitate the purchase and sale of company securities; providing an on-line marketplace for raising debt and equity capital for others, private placements of hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, securities and derivatives, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, deal structuring, financial valuations, investment banking, and investment vehicle placement agent services; dissemination of advertising for others over the Internet, namely, providing advertising information relating to the buying, selling and merging of businesses via the Internet; providing business information on the buying, selling and merging of business via the Internet; Analyzing and compiling business data and social graph relationships as pertaining to relationships, networks, social networks, networking, business goals, matching of needs to sources and other business-driven relationships; on-line business networking services; providing business information via a website