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June 2006

Customer Obsession: In Real Time

by Pete Abilla on June 20, 2006

jason calacanis, venture capital, leanstartup

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Jason Calacanis is clearly customer focused.  He’s using the interactivity of the web as a real-time focus group.  This does several things: For AOL, it helps them improve quickly and creates a TON of goodwill with its customers.  For the customers, it helps them to [...]

The Polarity Strategy

by Pete Abilla on June 19, 2006

polarity strategy, business

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I am reading Robert Greene’s 33 Strategies of War. It’s a good book and I’ve learned a lot already. From time to time, I’ll summarize a strategy that I’ve learned from the book and provide examples. Today, I’ll be talking about the Polarity [...]

Spings Attack Shmula

by Pete Abilla on June 19, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Update: After I posted this, I was Spinged 22 more times. That brings the total to 52 Spings in 3 hour period. I need to look at implementing captcha for my comments. More Update: I installed Akismet and I added a math question [...]

Good Intentions Gone Wild

by Pete Abilla on June 16, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I coach my son and daughter’s baseball team. Last Saturday, we had a game; at these games, we focus on learning the game and having fun. One of the parents of the other team, complained and made a minor scene that we shouldn’t [...]

queueing theory: part 2+

by Pete Abilla on June 15, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Earlier, we discussed Queueing Theory and Little’s Law. L = λW In that post, I stated that a goal in a process is to make the inputs flow as fast as possible through a system in order to produce an output. As an [...]

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