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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Turning Passion into Profit
We’re not saying this blog will cure your post-Olympic blues, but we do have something golden for you. This week we chatted with Alek…
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You’re Special… Sort of.
“You’re special, just like everyone else.” Unfortunately, this is as true in business as anywhere. Specialize or die – in a world of investing…
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A Twist on Buffett’s Advice
Today we’re taking a new look at one of Warren Buffett’s most quoted lines: “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.” While we…
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Is Real Estate Really “Location, Location, Location”?
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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What Robinhood got wrong (& right) in their Super Bowl commercial
I was about ready to let the whole Robinhood/Gamestop wildness go… and then I saw the commercial. You’ve probably seen it by now –…
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Doubling-down on Democratization
While trust in the gamified giant has become as volatile as a short squeeze on an outdated retail chain, now might be a good…
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What’s the difference between microinvesting and crowdfunding?
While crowdfunding serves a purpose, there are some glaring differences between it and investment crowdfunding, also known as microinvesting.
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An Alternative to Fighting Manipulation with Manipulation
There’s a good chance you’ll come across a BFF or “soul sister” at some point in life, but you’ll have better luck finding good…
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What have you assumed?
Assumptions are all those little (and BIG) things we expect to be true in the future around our business, its market, or the customers…
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5 Questions for the Capital Seeker
There comes a point in nearly every business’s life when getting funding is a necessity. At this fateful moment, there may also be a…
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4 Investor Insights from 4 Years of Reg CF
Four years old… this is the age you can expect recognition of shapes and colors, and a love for rhyming words. Also for some…
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Double Duty Diversified Income
It’s trivia time at Vicinity! Which of the following headlines from the past year are real? Aliens in hiding until mankind is ready, says…
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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…