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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What is an accredited investor?
If you have ever considered making investments outside of public markets (like stocks and bonds) in alternative investments (like private equity, real estate, startups),…
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VentureSouth Reports Major Milestones For 2022
VentureSouth is pleased to report its results from a momentous year in 2022. As one of the nation’s leading early-stage investment organizations, the firm…
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SC AITC 2021 Users
As we celebrate South Carolina angel investing tax credit transfer season (among other things), we found this report on the SC Dept of Revenue’s…
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VentureSouth Announces New Leadership for Atlanta Group
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is announcing new leadership for its Atlanta group. Matthew May and Kenji…
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VentureSouth Announces New Leadership for Midlands Group
VentureSouth, one of the United States’ largest angel investment groups, is excited to announce new leadership for its Midlands group, which serves investors in…
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A convertible note learning lesson
From our earlier blog post on convertible notes, you can probably tell that we are not big fans of them, though we concede that…
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VentureSouth Launching in Chattanooga
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is announcing its newest market expansion, VentureSouth Chattanooga. Chattanooga, TN will become…
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Three Angel Investing Flywheels
If you have followed Matt’s writings about angel investing, you’ll know he has been a fan of the “flywheel” metaphor for angel investing and…
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Amazing Entrepreneurs on the South Carolina Business Review
To celebrate one of our favorite entrepreneurs – Gabby of Confidence – appearing recently on the South Carolina Business Review (episode link here), here…
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VentureSouth Invests Over $2.7M in Early-Stage Companies in the Southeast in the First Quarter
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is excited to announce another quarter of significant investment activity in startup…
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PSA – Employee Retention Tax Credit – Recovery Startup Businesses
Attention anyone who started a business in the last two years! If you were fun enough to launch a new business during the pandemic,…
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VentureSouth Leads Investment in Gradient Health
VentureSouth is pleased to announce that it has led the $2.5M seed round financing of Gradient Health, a Durham, NC-based Health AI technology platform.…