Many business owners have turned to crowdfunding or crowdlending for needed funds. Get some pros, cons, and helpful tips on crowdfunding campaigns.

Dr. Paul Stoltz, the author of GRIT, relates how focusing on company growth combined with personal resiliency, instinct and tenacity can help your business succeed.

In this post in the Doing the Deal 101 Series, we discuss certain structural features of the Series A round of venture capital financing. We’ll consider first the form of the security that the Series A investors are likely to receive in the financing.

In this post in the Doing the Deal 101 Series, we take a look at some of the more important structural features unique to credit agreements.

The second post on the topic of How to Navigate a Typical Stock Purchase Agreement is Transfer Mechanics and Other Covenants. Experts from DealStage will describe the provisions that require one of the parties to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way. These are typically known as covenants.

How to Navigate a Typical Stock Purchase Agreement is the next topic in our eight part series on Doing the Deal 101 from experts DealStage. This topic has been broken out into three parts. Part 1, The Reps and Warranties and Indemnification is a very basic, and lively, introduction to the typical structure of a stock purchase agreement in a transaction involving the sale of control of a private company.

The first blog in an eight-part series about Doing the Deal 101 from experts DealStage, Disclosure Schedule in Acquisition Transactions discusses disclosure schedule preparation, review and impact on the timing and structure of a deal.

If you are looking to expand your business by reaching new markets, exporting may be one strategy to consider.

If your business needs change, you can convert from an LLC (limited liability company to a corporation or any other type of entity. The reverse also applies: you can convert another type of business to an LLC.

The 2014 National Small Business Week is May 12-16. SBA-sponsored events and webinars provide networking and learning opportunities.