Vicinity Views
News, education and insights on investing in public offerings through the Vicinity platform and private early-stage offerings with VentureSouth.
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Testing…
Testing testing… Two new testing the waters campaigns are live on Vicinity! With interest building in both of these deals, let’s recap what “testing the…
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Rethinking Portfolio Diversification: The ROI of Local
Portfolio diversification is your ally when it comes to risk. But it’s not only traditional assets: consider investing in local real estate.
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Reinventing Retirement: Invest Local for a Better Future
Concerned about retirement? Read this article and discover how a local investing strategy can help make your golden years truly shine!
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Investing in a Recession: Assets to Consider
Economic uncertainty can be tough for investors to manage. Read this article and discover which assets can help you diversify your portfolio.
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What Silicon Valley Bank can teach us about the power of community
Imagine driving down the interstate, 4+ hours in the car, children in tow, late in the afternoon. Suddenly, brakes. Your map app did not…
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Self-Directed IRA (SDIRA): What Investors Need to Know
A Self-Directed IRA is a retirement account that provides investors with an opportunity to diversify their portfolios. Read on to learn more!
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The Case for Mid-Market Real Estate and Crowdinvesting
Investing in mid-market real estate through “crowdinvesting” is a winning strategy. Read on to discover this booming asset class.
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Historic Tax (Rehabilitation) Credit FAQs
Tax credits can be an exciting part of real estate investing. Here are some frequently asked questions to help build a foundation.
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Reg CF: Rules Investors Need to Know
Before you invest through Reg CF, you must understand the rules. Read this article and discover everything you need to know to get started!
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The 5 Benefits of Reg CF for Investors
Looking to diversify your investment portfolio? Reg CF can get you there. Read on to find out how and discover the many benefits of…
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Millennials and Investing: A Complete Guide to Reg CF
Are you a millennial looking to diversify your portfolio? Read this article and discover everything you need to know about investing with Reg CF.
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Reg CF Compliance: A Brief Guide for Issuers
Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) enables eligible companies (developers and business owners) to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding. And yet, before you can make…
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Venture Capital Management Fees: The One Blog Version!
What do VC funds actually charge in management fees, and who cares? The hypothesis: The VentureSouth view: Venture capital funds and other similar funds…
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Venture Capital management fees: a wrap up
To wrap up this series in a few bullet points. Good luck making money, having fun, and doing good – and reducing your total…
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Venture Capital management fees: how can investors use all this information?
How do I use this information? New people invest in venture capital and angel funds all the time, and it’s hard to know what’s…
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Venture Capital management fees: VentureSouth vs. unscrupulous fund managers
So then how have you dealt with the issues with the step-down approach you covered? Another fair question. To take each of them in…
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Venture Capital management fees: VentureSouth’s practices
What would VentureSouth do? A fair follow-up question on these posts on venture capital fund management fees is: so what does VentureSouth do? You…
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Venture Capital management fees: problems with the step-down approach
The step-down approach is, in our opinion, the most appropriate management fee base. However, it is not perfect. If you are thinking in detail,…
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Venture Capital management fees: how much does it matter?
How big a difference does the “management fee base” make? Obviously the best analysis of this question would look at results: do funds with…
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Venture Capital management fees: who cares?
Why does the “management fee base” issue even matter? In the grand scheme of Life, the Universe and Everything, it doesn’t really matter how…
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Venture Capital management fees: other ideas?
Perhaps there are also more nuances to add here? Maybe: It remains surprising that these issues are so opaque, the terminology so confused, and…
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Venture Capital management fees: the verdict
Who do we think is right? After considering this new evidence, I’m willing to concede that VentureSouth’s view was wrong and the step-down approach…
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Venture Capital management fees: the evidence
The evidence Before I dived back into research, I thought the evidence would overwhelmingly support the “VentureSouth view.” My evidence included: But as I…
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What do Venture Capital funds actually charge in management fees, and who cares?
For our October series of posts, we have been investigating what venture capital funds actually charge in management fees. We hope you’ll learn something…