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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VentureSouth Announces Successful Exit From Portfolio Company Sensory Analytics
Greenville, S.C. – VentureSouth is pleased to announce its successful exit from portfolio company Sensory Analytics after its recent acquisition by Industrial Physics. Sensory Analytics,…
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Meet some VentureSouth members – via their podcast interrogations
Angel investors come from varied backgrounds and make investments for many different reasons. You can “meet” a sampling of VentureSouth members via their episodes…
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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? An SSRN paper review
In the last couple of papers we have looked at studies of how angel investors make investment decisions. This week we add a supplementary…
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How else do angels select deals? Personal characteristics
We concluded last time that early-stage investors back the jockeys and not the horses. But that is not everything we need to know about…
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How do angels select deals?
A frequent question from entrepreneurs is: How do angels select deals? Often selection of an appealing investment feels random or biased. In today’s paper,…
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SSRN paper of the week: Returns to Angels in Groups
For our academic article this week, we are revisiting that critical question: do angels make money? There are several significant papers on this topic,…
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VentureSouth Invests Over $5.5 Million In Early-Stage Companies In The Southeast In 1H 2024
Greenville, S.C. – VentureSouth, one of the top 10 angel groups in North America, is excited to announce investments totaling $5.5 million into 24 early-stage…
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Angels vs. Venture Capitalists: Are Angels Different?
This week we continue one of the themes from last time’s post, diving deeper into how angel investments and venture capital investments have in…
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Angels vs Venture Capitalists: Substitutes or Complements
How do angel investors overlap, collaborate with, compete with, benefit from, or get punished by venture capitalists? There is a lot of opinion and…
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Should you back unattractive or attractive fund managers?
Being good-looking brings many advantages in life, as you well know. It turns out, though, that being a better angel investment fund manager might…
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Public policy: Losing New Businesses
If you thought we were done with the 2011 accredited investor definition change, you would be wrong! Academics love a good change in the…
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The Devil’s Guide to Angel Investing
In this week’s reading “recommendation,” we are providing a bit more information on the book we’ve been reading – as it’s a fun but…