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Updates to the Virginia Human Rights Act and Virginia Wage Payment Act
Part 2 of a 3-part series recapping this week's BOSS Seminar, "Virginia Employment Law Update for Business Owners," presented by Deb Collins of Yeng Collins Law, PLLC. Two additional Virginia statutes changed effective July 1, 2026: the Virginia Human Rights Act...
Virginia Pay Transparency and Non-Compete Law Changes: An Overview for Business Owners
Two Virginia statutes affecting hiring practices and post-employment restrictions changed on July 1, 2026. This post summarizes the pay transparency and salary history provisions, along with the expanded non-compete rules, and outlines the compliance steps businesses should consider.
Protecting Your Key People Before a Transition Tests Your Business
Every business has at least one or two people whose departure would change things immediately. Not because of their title, but because they hold relationships, knowledge, judgment, or operating capacity that the rest of the business depends on.
Compensation and Benefits Are Not a Cost Line. They Are a Value Lever.
For many business owners, compensation and benefits live in the budgeting conversation. The discussion usually starts with what the business can afford, what others seem to be paying, and what has to be offered to stay reasonably competitive.
The Six Levers of Total Rewards — And Why Small Businesses Should Use All of Them
Most business owners think about compensation and benefits in two buckets: what people are paid and what benefits the business can afford to offer. A natural place to start. There is significantly more available to owners who want to think strategically about...
The Invisible Balance Sheet
Why Intangible Assets are Your Most Valuable & Most Overlooked Strategic Resource More Than What You Can Touch When business owners and executives think about assets, the list usually looks familiar: cash reserves, equipment, buildings, inventory, and perhaps some software licenses.
Intangible Assets: Structural Capital
How to Turn Institutional Know-How Into a Business Asset That Outlasts. Any Individual The Knowledge That Walks Out the Door Every business depends on knowledge. The question is not whether that knowledge exists; it does, accumulated through years of experience, mistakes, client interactions, and hard-won operational insight.
Intangible Assets: Organizational Capital
Building the Operating System That Determines Whether Strategy Becomes Reality Every Organization Has an Operating System Every business runs on an operating system. Not a software platform, but a set of rules, habits, structures, and norms that determine how decisions get made, how information flows, how accountability is assigned, etc.
Intangible Assets: Customer Capital
Strengthening intangible assets increases business value by making future cash flows more predictable and reducing risk in the eyes of potential buyers. Companies with strong customer capital are less dependent on any one individual owner, which reduces “key person” risk and improves both valuation multiples and deal terms in a sale.
Intangible Assets: Social Capital
Brian Pascouau – Big Deal Marketing/Virginia Beach 2/17/2026 Intangible Assets and the Shift to a Knowledge Economy Many business owners struggle to recognize and quantify intangible assets because they do not...
Upcoming Virginia Employment Law Changes: RetirePath, Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Leave, and Paid Family and Medical Leave
Several Virginia employment law changes were enacted alongside the July 1, 2026 updates covered elsewhere in this series but take effect on a delayed schedule extending into 2029.
Business Valuation as a Planning Tool
Business valuation is a critical planning discipline for closely held business owners because their enterprise frequently represents 75–80% of their overall net worth. A current, defensible indication of value provides an objective foundation.