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Google announced last week that it is shutting down personal health record service Google Health. The underlying cause: the people who use Google Health aren't the people making health care decisions. The Internet has been a boon for consumers who want to learn more about their medical symptoms and conditions.

If you have achieved at least $1 million in revenue in each of the past 2 fiscal years, you may want to check out this competition. Here, the sky is the limit! While many solopreneurs build multi-million dollar businesses, not every solopreneur sets out with the intention of remaining solo for the duration of their years in business.

"Really, it doesn't make the most sense for us to go right after Ticketmaster now, when we have such a large opportunity in all these other markets," says Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz. Popular ticketing startup Eventbrite is known more for selling tix for local indie acts than Madison Square Garden headliners

How can companies transform to fit the new business landscape? How can companies even realize they need to change?

The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.

This article is part 6 of an 8 part series. Learn more about core versus context in part 5

Each year , I help fellow entrepreneurs and investors judge the MBA business plan competition at Harvard Business School. This year, I noted which pitch approaches seemed to work best and which tactics fell flat. Here are five things that worked in this year's presentations—and that you should consider including in your next business plan pitch: 1

Six months ago when I started working at Parallels as CEO I knew that I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted overnight. So I asked myself, "What are the key challenges I want to tackle first?" I worked with my leadership team to define our business priorities and establish clear, measurable goals so we could achieve them to profitably grow our business. I created scorecards for our company with our executives and their teams so everyone understands our goals, what success looks like and how each person is accountable to helping the company achieve its goals.

With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.

Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results.

The first ever study of its kind by See Change Strategy takes a deep dive into medical pot, a growth industry. Here's a free sample of the data.

Photograph by Jeff Minton Food styling: James Parker, founder of Veggie Art | Photograph by: Jamie Chung Jeff Dunn believes he can double the $1 billion baby-carrot business -- and promote healthy eating -- by marketing the vegetable like Doritos. His secret weapon? He knows every snack-marketing trick in the book.