Phew. What a week.The 2019 VentureSouth Summit was another step up in ambition for VentureSouth and Venture Carolina.The pictures tell the story, and we’ve crunched the numbers to see how it went. 16 sessions and 20 hours of content over two days – 7 educational...
Final preparations are nearly done for the 2019 VentureSouth Summit and Venture Carolina Education Conference.As for the last three years, our goal this week is to bring 200 VentureSouth members and 100 entrepreneurs together for a giant angel group meeting and...
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 of the power of angel investing, economic development, outside capital, and tremendous hard work.We're providing our updates to...
Third (back off our soapbox), we are dedicating most of our second day to hearing updates from our portfolio companies. An absolute key part of angel group management is keeping track of the portfolio.At an elementary (and yet surprisingly complex) level, making sure...
(2) Our second main workshop is “Angel Investing for Economic Development.” This session aims to tell more people about why angel investing is critical to local economic development efforts.Why are we doing this workshop? VentureSouth’s primary goal is to make good...
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 successful high growth companies are pretty unlikely to result.Education is therefore a big part of our...
First, a key selling point of our angel group is that we have so many members – 240 and counting – who can provide an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience when looking at possible investments.Unlike big groups concentrated in one city, however, our members are...
Having finished our October angel group meetings and all our kids’ Halloween candy, we are preparing hard for our final group meeting of the year.In November, though, we change our operating model from monthly meetings in every town to a single large meeting in...