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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The Top Five Benefits of Investing in Your Local Economy
Investing takes on many forms. The key is to keep a diversified portfolio, and investing in local real estate plays an important part in…
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The Evolution of Local Investing
At the end of 2020 Chapel ran a successful campaign on Vicinity’s portal to fund a multi-tenant facility in the Poe Mill area. For…
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Taxes for Investors: A Brief Guide to Forms
Are you struggling to understand what tax forms apply to your investments? Our brief guide on taxes for investors should help!
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The Case for Direct Ownership
Let’s talk some trash. No, not figuratively. Trash is an everyday part of our lives, but how much do you really think about this…
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See, Touch, Feel
Diving into financial planning resources or investment strategy tips can feel more like a personality test than a mathematical analysis. You’ll get questions like:…
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A Different Take on Value Investing
I distinctly remember the look I received from our investment advisor assigned to my company’s 401k retirement plan. It was the annual plan review.…
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Pride of Place
Pride of place. It’s one of those phrases that sounds familiar, but you’re not sure why. What place are we talking about? Are there…
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Double Duty Dollars
If you’re in the thick of raising capital, worrying about who’s running their mouth about your brand and what they’re saying might not be…
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Accredited or Sophisticated?
I recently saw someone post on social media about their momentous achievement of reaching “Accredited Investor” status. For context, that’s the financial equivalent of…
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The Collab of the Decade
This week we’ve got buildings on the brain. Private real estate investing is hardly a new arena, but the rise of Crowdinvesting has CRE…
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Booming Babies and Business Buying
The mass exodus of baby boomers from small businesses has been predicted for several years now. While the “tsunami” of boomer biz owners looking…
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Evaluating Evaluation
Today we’re going mountain climbing. What mountains you say? Well, the small ones of course! Zeb Parsons, one of our recent podcast guests left us with…
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VentureSouth portfolio news – summer 2018
KIYATEC led the big news this summer, with the admittance of the first patients to its first clinical trial. Learn more here and in…
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The 10 year history of UCAN and VentureSouth
The Upstate Business Journal’s feature on UCAN and VentureSouth’s 10 year anniversary is available here. You can learn more about the portfolio companies mentioned…
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VentureSouth investment in Threatswitch
We are delighted to announce officially VentureSouth’s investment in Threatswitch. You can learn more from the Charlotte Business Journal here (thanks Caroline Hudson for…
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UCAN Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Record Quarter
Thanks to all our friends – like Bauknight, Pietras & Stormer, the Upstate Business Journal, and others – who helped us celebrate… Greenville, S.C. –…
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VentureSouth portfolio news – Spring 2018
The VentureSouth portfolio continues to blossom in the spring of 2018. Here are a few highlights from the last few weeks. Zipit – announced…
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An exit! FarmShots acquired by Syngenta!
Investing in early stage companies pays off in many ways. The most tangible is when they are bought by bigger companies. We’re delighted to…
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Playing the Long Game: Matt’s latest UBJ column
Matt’s ability to combine sporting analogies and angel investing insights is a unique skill. Enjoy his latest thoughts on how angel investing is like…
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VentureSouth 2017 Summit – the other activities
And lastly there are other interesting events going on at the Summit. We’re hearing from Proterra on how it’s doing – an amazing example…
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VentureSouth 2017 Summit – portfolio review
Third (back off our soapbox), we are dedicating most of our second day to hearing updates from our portfolio companies. An absolute key part…
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VentureSouth 2017 Summit – the economic development
(2) Our second main workshop is “Angel Investing for Economic Development.” This session aims to tell more people about why angel investing is critical…
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VentureSouth 2017 Summit – the education
Second, connecting informed investors and educated entrepreneurs is key to our business model: if either group doesn’t know how to operate, good investments and…
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VentureSouth 2017 Summit – the format
First, a key selling point of our angel group is that we have so many members – 240 and counting – who can provide…