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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Burn Baby Burn
Not to start out the insight on a down note, (or a bang?) but I want to emphasize the critical importance in business of…
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The SMB’s Survival Guide For The End Of The World
70% of small businesses are worried about financial hardship because of prolonged closures and 58% worry about permanently closing. Raising capital is the #1…
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Location Location Location
As promised last week, we’re coming back to visit the success metric of profit margin. Profit margin is a very common ratio used to…
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Profit Margin
As promised last week, we’re coming back to visit the success metric of profit margin. Profit margin is a very common ratio used to…
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What the Barefoot Prophet of WeWork Missed About the Power of “We”
Imagine, for a second, an ultra-successful CEO who walks around barefoot and preaches on the “power of we.” Are we talking about a cult…
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Just Ask
Instead of worrying about your intellectual status, adopt the approach of asking a lot of questions. And while the only dumb question might be…
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What I learned from Oprah & Baker Mayfield About Building a Legacy
What do you think when you hear the word legacy? Your children, your business, Legacy Federal Credit Union? It’s ok, me too. “Legacy” gets…
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The Commonalities Between Squirrels and Investors
Here in the Upstate, tis the season for countless Eastern Gray Squirrels to busily bury, unbury, rebury and even lose track of diligently harvested…
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The Different Types of Reg CF Offerings Explained
Looking to learn more about Regulation Crowdfunding? Read this article and discover some of the most popular reg cf offerings.
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How Community Involvement Changes Your Life
Have you ever seen a group of young men singing Disney songs while swinging a sledgehammer at a cement parking lot? It’s quite a…
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The Move to Microinvesting
Apps like Acorns have brought the phrase “micro investing” on the scene with their approach of rounding up to the next dollar whenever you…
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Top 3 Ways to Promote your Crowdfunding campaign
So you did it! You launched an investment crowdfunding campaign and you’re going all-in on a local legion of microinvestors and brand ambassadors. Now…
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Exits: Taxes
So, finally! Our preferred shareholder has a distribution. Less than expected by the naïve optimists hearing the headline price, but still it’s nice to…
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Exits: The Last Complications
The pie is so close you can almost taste it. But wait a second! Escrow accounts In most transactions, the buyer will insist that…
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Exits: Dividing the Pie
As we’re close to the bottom of the waterfall, we are now including a third metaphor as we figure out how to “divide the…
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Exits: The First Evaporations
There are a few immediate claims on the water heading into the waterfall; some of these are fairly obvious, others are more complicated or…
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Exits: Waterfalls
Nothing happens in investing without flowery metaphors. When we discuss “exits” we are talking about getting our money back out of an investment. This…
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Exits: waterfalls, holdbacks, escrows, earnouts, and carry – some of the complexities of “an exit”
“Make Money. Have Fun. Do Good.” is the VentureSouth motto. This first part, Make Money, is (we believe) the key point of angel investing…
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Capped participating preferreds: the real impact 2: the grey zone
Following from the last post, there was a range of fairly attractive outcomes where the capped participation had an impact: let’s review the results…
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Capped participation preferreds: the real impact part 1
What does the capped participation preference mean in practice? Time for the promised spreadsheet: this sheet lays out the returns for preferred shareholders in…
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Capped participating preferreds: Are they unusual?
As we asked in the last post, are capped participating preferreds unusual? Well, it is option #3 in the term sheet – people generally…
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Capped participating preferreds: source infomation
Following on from the last post, before we unleash the spreadsheet, though, let’s cover where the idea of capped participating preferreds comes from. The…
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Capped participating preferreds: introduction
On a few VentureSouth investments this fall, we led the round (as we like to do) and agreed a term sheet that included a…
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Non-dilutive funding: wrap up
There are lots of other resources for exploring non-dilutive funding. While this is a bit outside of our remit at VentureSouth, we strongly encourage…