This is the season of shopping. Small business employers can shop for employee insurance plans via SHOP, the Small Business Health Options Program. Some employers who take advantage of these plans can also claim a tax credit for up to 50 percent of the cost of the premium.

Handling annual report compliance in-house can be a big drain on time and money, whether it's from lack of expertise or the risk of missed filings.

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.

Veterans make excellent entrepreneurs and there are many governmental and private programs to help these men and women launch successful businesses.

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.

Cloud computing will fundamentally change the way small businesses operate, positioning them for innovation and growth while strengthening the bottom line.

The final post on the topic of How to Navigate a Typical Stock Purchase Agreement is Provisions Included if There is a Separate Signing and Closing. Experts from DealStage will describe the provisions that are often included in the agreement when the closing (the day when the parties exchange the stock for cash) does not happen at the same time that the parties sign the agreement. This is called a separate signing and closing.

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.

Recently we considered a variety of factors that help make a location good for business. This week,we take a deeper dive into the impact of state taxes and spotlight how North Carolina’s reforms in this area are likely to catapult the state to one of the top states for business.

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.