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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Testing…
Testing testing… Two new testing the waters campaigns are live on Vicinity! With interest building in both of these deals, let’s recap what “testing the…
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Rethinking Portfolio Diversification: The ROI of Local
Portfolio diversification is your ally when it comes to risk. But it’s not only traditional assets: consider investing in local real estate.
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Reinventing Retirement: Invest Local for a Better Future
Concerned about retirement? Read this article and discover how a local investing strategy can help make your golden years truly shine!
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Investing in a Recession: Assets to Consider
Economic uncertainty can be tough for investors to manage. Read this article and discover which assets can help you diversify your portfolio.
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What Silicon Valley Bank can teach us about the power of community
Imagine driving down the interstate, 4+ hours in the car, children in tow, late in the afternoon. Suddenly, brakes. Your map app did not…
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Self-Directed IRA (SDIRA): What Investors Need to Know
A Self-Directed IRA is a retirement account that provides investors with an opportunity to diversify their portfolios. Read on to learn more!
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The Case for Mid-Market Real Estate and Crowdinvesting
Investing in mid-market real estate through “crowdinvesting” is a winning strategy. Read on to discover this booming asset class.
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Historic Tax (Rehabilitation) Credit FAQs
Tax credits can be an exciting part of real estate investing. Here are some frequently asked questions to help build a foundation.
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Reg CF: Rules Investors Need to Know
Before you invest through Reg CF, you must understand the rules. Read this article and discover everything you need to know to get started!
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The 5 Benefits of Reg CF for Investors
Looking to diversify your investment portfolio? Reg CF can get you there. Read on to find out how and discover the many benefits of…
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Millennials and Investing: A Complete Guide to Reg CF
Are you a millennial looking to diversify your portfolio? Read this article and discover everything you need to know about investing with Reg CF.
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Reg CF Compliance: A Brief Guide for Issuers
Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) enables eligible companies (developers and business owners) to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding. And yet, before you can make…
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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…