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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Tips for reviewing the campaign page
Just in case you’re new to all this, (“this” meaning dropping angel investments like a boss) we thought we’d give a few tips on…
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How Small Business Raise Campaigns Work
Growing up, I always enjoyed reading Calvin and Hobbes, a comic series by Bill Watterson. There were comic strips where Calvin would ask his…
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How to raise money for your non-sexy business
Asking someone for money is rarely fun and almost never easy. But if you’re trying to grow your business then you’ll almost always reach…
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How to tell an investing expert from a non-expert
Investing can be complex. Building a smart investment strategy and risk management discipline takes work. But an investor is only deemed an expert based…
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Social Capital – What is it and why should you care?
Around here, we often say Vicinity is where financial capital meets social capital. Well, if you say something often enough, you should probably stop…
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An Adrenaline Junkie’s Guide To Analyzing Risk
Welcome to an adrenaline junkie’s guide to analyzing risk. I wouldn’t blame you if you closed your laptop immediately and walked away. But thanks…
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What do Angel investors look for in small businesses?
Angel investor. Probably the coolest title in the investing world. This moniker belongs to high net worth individuals who financially back a business, usually…
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Nomads Can’t Grow Gardens
It’s no secret. Whether we’re talking attention spans or investing strategies, we live in an age of short-sightedne… oh look! Bitcoin! Everybody wants to…
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Crowdfunding with Covid [Regulatory Update]
The investment crowdfunding industry is not losing any steam even during…well, you know… the feverish elephant in the room with a dry cough. Though…
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Unicorns & Workhorses
Did you know that drinking from the horn of a unicorn might protect you from stomach trouble, epilepsy, or poison? This mythological horned horse/goat…
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ICP, USP, and PMF: Business Acronyms for Investors
Business acronyms can frustrate new investors. Vicinity is here to help. Read this article and discover the power of ICP, USP, and PMF.
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A Modern Day Braveheart Has 5 Reasons To Buy Local
There’s nothing like the Upstate highlands. A green canopy of trees covers the Appalachian slopes like a blanket over the body of an old…
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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…