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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What are the benefits of being the lead investor?
There are many benefits to being the lead investor in a round, we’re going to touch on a few advantages that we’ve realized by…
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What does it mean to be the lead investor?
One struggle that entrepreneurs, individual angels, and even small cooperatives of angels frequently face is finding a lead investor. Time and time again, entrepreneurs’…
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Angel taxes: the Section 1045 rollover deadline extension
June has been busy at VentureSouth so blogging has been light, but we hate to leave gaps between posts about taxes so here’s a…
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Sidecar funds primer: Where can I learn more?
As a final post in this series, here are a few places where you can learn more about sidecar funds. As we said before,…
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Sidecar funds primer: The entrepreneurs perspective
As we wrap up this series, a quick post for entrepreneurs to ask: should I care about whether an angel group has a sidecar…
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Sidecar funds primer: What else should we be aware of?
One of our pet peeves is seeing fundraising efforts ignoring the rules on general solicitations. As a quick primer, most of this type of…
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Sidecar funds primer: What should I evaluate in my sidecar fund diligence?
Whenever you are investing, you should do your due diligence. We’ll skip here all the general diligence you should do every time – team,…
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Sidecar funds primer: Why might someone invest in a sidecar?
We’ll skip the reasons for angel investing in general, as hopefully we’ve covered the potential for making money, having fun, and doing good enough…
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Sidecar funds primer: How do sidecars work in practice?
To distill the concepts of the last post into a concrete example: consider a typical VentureSouth angel sidecar fund.
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Sidecar funds primer: How do sidecars work?
After the guesswork of the last post, we’re on firmer ground when discussing how sidecar funds work! First, structurally, they’re usually LLCs or Limited…
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Sidecar funds primer: How many are there?
Data on how the number of sidecar funds are not easy to find. Based on some membership data from the Angel Capital Association, my…
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Sidecar funds primer: What are sidecar funds?
A sidecar fund is a pooled investment vehicle that makes investments by “riding alongside” another investor. A pooled investment vehicle means an investor puts…