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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.

John Schmitt opted to self-fund his employees' medical claims, and saw his company health insurance costs drop 20 percent. John Charles Schmitt II , who heads up Plans for Professionals, a 300-person life insurance firm in Orange, Connecticut, used to work with Connecticut Blue Cross and Blue Shield to cover his employee health insurance costs. But as premiums rose and new healthcare guidelines started to come into effect, even Schmitt—who played ten football seasons with the Jets, won the 1969 Super Bowl with quarterback Joe Namath and had 16 operations due to football injuries—became nervous.

How can you get your non-sales employees to help "sell" your business? If you have salespeople, you know what they're usually motivated by: cold hard cash. And if they're not, they shouldn't be your salespeople

As a business owner you may be a great salesperson but a lousy sales manager. So remove yourself from the equation by hiring a self-directed salesperson.

When your company needs to use a process, concept, toolor really anything that's protected by a patent, copyright, or trademarkhere's how to license it, and avoid legal trouble. The world of intellectual property has suffered a shake up in the Internet age

Restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses, and less than half make it past their third birthday. The handful of chefs who not only stay afloat but rise to the very top rely as much on business savvy as knife skills

Summer hours can be a perk with more bang for your buck than more traditional employee benefits.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong didn't have to go very far to discover his company was struggling. He just asked one of his employees

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

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Five founders cultivate a family-friendly work environment that includes tuition reimbursement and big-ticket prizes.

An employee-run committee keeps n-Link's remote workers close and involved. Due to the busy nature of the business—namely, providing IT services for the federal government—it's common for employees to feel more attached to the government customer where they work than with the company.

Iris Harrell is looking to make a legacy out of her company by making her employees owners. "I want to have a legacy and I want this company to go on long after I'm gone," says Iris Harrell, founder and CEO of Harrell Remodeling. Harrell has gradually built her company into a staff of 40 who are encouraged to become owners through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

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