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Small Business Strategy Speak Like a Human The Raven’s Eye Same insights, same sources. Switch anytime. In May 2026, Colorado’s governor signed a real law about how businesses can use AI to make decisions about people. Not a proposal. Not something Congress is still arguing about. An actual, signed law with an effective date coming […]
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Costco caps its own markup at 14 percent and pays its employees well above minimum wage. The data suggests that self-imposed discipline, not looser margins, is what built one of retail’s most durable competitive advantages.
Elite strategy firms charge up to $10,000 a day and serve 90 of the world’s 100 largest companies. Meanwhile, the 36.2 million small businesses that make up 99.9 percent of the American economy have never had access to the same caliber of thinking, and it shows in the failure statistics.
