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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The Top Five Benefits of Investing in Your Local Economy
Investing takes on many forms. The key is to keep a diversified portfolio, and investing in local real estate plays an important part in…
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The Evolution of Local Investing
At the end of 2020 Chapel ran a successful campaign on Vicinity’s portal to fund a multi-tenant facility in the Poe Mill area. For…
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Taxes for Investors: A Brief Guide to Forms
Are you struggling to understand what tax forms apply to your investments? Our brief guide on taxes for investors should help!
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The Case for Direct Ownership
Let’s talk some trash. No, not figuratively. Trash is an everyday part of our lives, but how much do you really think about this…
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See, Touch, Feel
Diving into financial planning resources or investment strategy tips can feel more like a personality test than a mathematical analysis. You’ll get questions like:…
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A Different Take on Value Investing
I distinctly remember the look I received from our investment advisor assigned to my company’s 401k retirement plan. It was the annual plan review.…
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Pride of Place
Pride of place. It’s one of those phrases that sounds familiar, but you’re not sure why. What place are we talking about? Are there…
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Double Duty Dollars
If you’re in the thick of raising capital, worrying about who’s running their mouth about your brand and what they’re saying might not be…
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Accredited or Sophisticated?
I recently saw someone post on social media about their momentous achievement of reaching “Accredited Investor” status. For context, that’s the financial equivalent of…
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The Collab of the Decade
This week we’ve got buildings on the brain. Private real estate investing is hardly a new arena, but the rise of Crowdinvesting has CRE…
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Booming Babies and Business Buying
The mass exodus of baby boomers from small businesses has been predicted for several years now. While the “tsunami” of boomer biz owners looking…
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Evaluating Evaluation
Today we’re going mountain climbing. What mountains you say? Well, the small ones of course! Zeb Parsons, one of our recent podcast guests left us with…
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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…