SPInvest As A Venture Capital Fund

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We discussed this a few weeks ago but it is taking on added importance the further we go along.

According to the last earnings report, SPInvest has over 365K HIVE. At the time of the report, that was under $200K in USD.


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When we look over the future, what can the price of HIVE get to? This is an important question when looking at the potential to fund new ventures. Since most people still deal in fiat, the greater the value, the more the possibilities.

One of the key concepts to SPInvest is to keep generating returns. This means to continually push the profits into other ideas that can generate further payouts.

Venture Capital funding can be extremely profitable. Over the course of a number of years, it does not require to many major successes to equate to large payouts. VC firms understand they will lose on some of the projects but the ones that do win will more than compensate for any losses.

Thus far, SPInvest entered into one such deal that could be considered along this realm. If that project is extremely successful on Hive, we could see much greater value in the SPI fund from those tokens.

A fund like SPInvest is badly needed. As we progress along, we see more VC firms being drawn to this industry. This is a benefit when it comes to getting things funded and developed, it ultimately pits application users against the VC firms.

The later wants to get paid, pure and simple. Users do not care about monetization of platforms. Their sole focus is upon their experience.

SPInvest can take this all to another level through the tokenization process. Since a holder of tokens is instantly monetized due to it being traded on open markets, SPI can take its value in tokens. This aligns the fund with the user base.

It is a major advantage to operating within the cryptocurrency realm.

Existing crypto projects that are attracting VC funding are still being structured in the same old manner. This is only going to create the same issues that other VC funded applications run into.

If we are to be a self sustaining industry, we will need to self fund ourselves. The idea of pulling in large sums of money from Wall Street and Silicon Valley is what many talk about. They like the idea because the numbers can get really big. However, in my view, this is very shortsighted.

SPInvest can stand out by operating in an entirely different manner. Even without our small realm, this means we can have a meaningful impact while also enhancing the return of the fund.

All of this will combine to add even greater value to the SPI holdings. As we get more activity going on the entire spectrum, individual projects ride the network effect to even higher values.

This will, of course, all feed into SPInvest. With a solid basis of holdings, we could really see this fund jump to much higher numbers. If HIVE does stage a nice run in the future, the money that SPI has to put towards projects could go up exponentially.

It makes sense for us to think on this level for many reasons.

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I'll continue on form this post on Friday with funding offered post.

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Yes, I like this idea, it is one of my visions for Hive, but these types of projects bring more risks than the sorts of things that @spinvest has been investing in until now. Over on another @spinvest post there's a discussion about why people are HODLing SPI (or any other token): not every hodler has the same risk profile or the same needs or plans, we need to be aware of this when looking at new ventures.

I've written about this before, but my idea is to have funds that are specifically intended for high risk ventures ie where the outcome is not predictable. Even where there is a good business proposition (or "use case") and a good team behind it, external events like COVID-19, hostile takeovers and hard forks and weather - hurricanes, floods, arctic snow - can devastate enterprises.

So, I guess it is a ring-fenced Venture Capital fund with higher risks but also potentially higher returns for investors. SPI may want to be one of the backers, but with a small proportion of its funds to seed the idea, but the proportion (5%? 10%? 20%) is ring-fenced so SPI's fund is protected. A separate VC fund with its own token would also help to ring-fence losses, rather than leaving SPI investors exposed.

There is a huge need and huge potential for this kind of fund: also for mentors and angels to support fledgling enterprises.

I'm guessing this was written by @taskmaster4450? Could we include the name of the author in the post please?

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