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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Back to basics: Section 1045 rollovers
You made a $5,000 investment (in a QSBS C-Corp) through VentureSouth in 2016 and we sent you back $45,000 for the capital gain in…
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Back to basics: Section 1202 capital gain exclusion
Why do we claim that angel investing can create especially attractive types of capital gains? The answer is Section 1202 of the tax code.…
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Back to basics: capital gains
A basic angel investment might be: From a tax perspective, that is a simple story: That’s a nice outcome, of course. It’s even better…
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Back to basics: intro to angel investing taxes
Before Thanksgiving, we replied to a Forbes article claiming the tax advantages from angel investing were not exciting compared with those from real estate…
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VentureSouth 2019 Summit recap
Phew. What a week. The 2019 VentureSouth Summit was another step up in ambition for VentureSouth and www.venturecarolina.orgVenture Carolina. The pictures tell the story,…
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The VentureSouth Summit 2019 – This Week!
Final preparations are nearly done for the 2019 VentureSouth Summit and Venture Carolina Education Conference. As for the last three years, our goal this…
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Is real estate Clemson and angel investing Carolina? A reply to Angel Investing Versus Real Estate Investing: Which Strategy Would Win?
By: Paul Clark In Forbes last Friday, this article from Ellie Perlman, the CEO of a real estate investment company, outlined the pros and cons…
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KIYATEC To Present Immuno-Oncology Response Characterization at the 2019 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting
KIYATEC, Inc. today announced that it will present data characterizing in vitro response to checkpoint inhibitors in solid tumors, a capability that addresses an important need in…
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Angel Investing in the Southeast
By: Kevin Meinecke [Editor’s note: Kevin left VentureSouth in June 2022 for the big city, and is now Senior Manager of Mergers & Acquisitions…
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VentureSouth Closes Angel Fund III
This week we are pleased to announce the final closing of our third “sidecar” fund – the VentureSouth Angel Fund III. You can learn…
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SC angel credit trading season
Last week’s post about the after-tax returns of angel investors was prompted partly by Malay and partly because it’s the time of year when…
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VentureSouth Announces Successful Exit From Portfolio Company Ecomdash
VentureSouth is pleased to announce that Ecomdash, one of its portfolio companies, has been acquired. Ecomdash, based in Charlotte, provides software to help retailers successfully…