Hey crew, what a week.

I was really struggling to find something to write about and then, wham, a whirlwind of stuff all happened:

…Bonus, an investment thesis that yielded a 29%* return from Community Rounds.

Let’s dive in.

With a strategic investment from NC IDEA, NC now has a proper private market “index” fund for investors and funding for NC founders they back.

aka. If you’re an accredited investor, you can take a stake on NC.

This comes less than 2 weeks after R!oT announced the joint venture for its program to come under NC IDEA.

What’s next?

I’m excited. There’s so much connectively between NC, other states, and global players. It’s a give 1st entrepreneurial community mountains to sea.

These partnerships connect it even further.

Hmm… Maybe the SEC will put rules in place to allow anyone to invest in NC Tweener Fund since it’s operated by such longstanding and experienced operators and funders.

[Motorsports] Apex Resource Center Partners If “Jerry Maguire” were set in motorsports, the story wouldn’t begin once drivers reach the professional ranks. It would begin much earlier with pre-pro drivers.

[OpCo X PropCo] Blue Co Warehousing has 4 locations across Raleigh, Charlotte, and recently opened Fuquay-Varina. Its locations provide flexible space & terms and shared equipment i.e. forklifts and shared receiving team.

[Data for AI] Surge Networks is building the data “oil” wells for AI and recently launched locations in New Orleans with others on deck such as Atlanta ahead of the World Cup and North Hills in Raleigh.

[Defense Tech] Windlift’s tethered drone tech has dual use applications across cargo ships, US defense, and NATO defense. They have partnerships in the US, Finland and the EU.

Disclosure: Incolo serves as a paid business consultant to Apex, Blue Co., Surge, and Windlift.

This is by far the boldest experiment I’ve seen for Investment Crowdfunding.

365 days. 365 investments. 29% annualized return*. See Paul Lovejoy’s post.

He and I met about a year or so ago.

I’ve met with no less than 50 financial advisors about their take on crowd investing and NONE of them will (or can) give advice to their clients on investing in Community Rounds.

Paul is the only one I’ve ever met.

But instead of giving advice, he just put his money where his mouth was and diversified personally in 365 “highly risky” companies (being that they are private with no immediate access for liquidity for investors) he wanted to see succeed. Not just for financial returns, but for building better communities… building the world he wanted to see.

What a flip on investor mindset. Maybe his views will help shape a generation of people who are “scared” of investment to ambassadors who invest and make connections to help companies grow. When the companies win, the investors win (not investment advice).

*Cash flow return = dividends, interest payments and return of principal.

I’ve spent a little bit of time with Wesley Gundler as he prepares for his USF2000 premiere, but I got to witness the true test of his character Wed night.

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