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Good Complexity, Bad Complexity

by Pete Abilla on November 30, 2006

impact of complexity in business

Yahoo’s Peanut Butter Manifesto reminded me of Systems Thinking. In Systems Thinking, there is a distinction between good complexity and bad complexity. Below are the following rules: End-to-End, systems is an organic ecosystem, with inter-dependent parts. From a business perspective, eliminate complexity that the customer is not willing to pay for (if she knew about [...]

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Learning from the Dot Com Meltdown

by Pete Abilla on November 28, 2006

The Business Plan Archive is rich with history of what didn’t work during the Dot Com Bust. There, you’ll find interesting facts, business plans, and technologies that were just plain lame, very good but marketed poorly, or just too early for its time. Take, for example, the chart below which shows the shutdown velocity, by [...]

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Only in Utah

by Pete Abilla on November 27, 2006

Only in Utah, or the Bible Belt, or other religious states – but, I have to admit, this one is pretty darn, hecka, and flippin’ funny. Unrelated, but interesting, is this nice, ajaxy, draggable presentation of all the completed acquisitions by Google, acquisitions by Yahoo, acquisitions by Amazon, and acquisitions by Microsoft.  If you enjoy [...]

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Little’s Law for Product Development

by Pete Abilla on November 27, 2006

A queueing system is a model with the following structure: customers arrive and join a queue to wait for service given by n servers. After receiving service, the customer exits the system. A fundamental result of queueing theory is little’s law. Theorem: for a queueing system in steady state, the average length of the queue [...]

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On Buying a 2007 Suburban

by Pete Abilla on November 25, 2006

car for large family

After several weeks of research and having to decide between a GMC Yukon XL or a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban, I decided to go with the 2007 Chevrolet Suburban. We recently bought a new suburban — 2007, Gray Metallic Color, 4WD, and it’s really nice and — it fits my whole family. I don’t really care [...]

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Book Review: Venture Capital and Private Equity

by Pete Abilla on November 25, 2006

I just finished two books on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The first one is Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company and the second one is Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook. So, Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company This was an interesting book, written by a long-time [...]

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Christmas Season, Lights, & Death

by Pete Abilla on November 24, 2006

Thanksgiving was good; the turkey wasn’t that dry; and the rolls turned out just fine, and I’m reminded of Thanksgiving everyday by the weight I’ve gained. Now, The Christmas Season is here, people are crazy shopping today (Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year), and I’m home with the new baby. Well, Merry [...]

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Bodybuilder Recalls 650,000 PS3′s

by Pete Abilla on November 21, 2006

A fake article posted by a bodybuilder was dugg lastnight and made it to the front page of digg within 2 hours. The article was fake and many digg voters saw it, but it still received over 800 digg votes, which brought tens of thousands of eyeballs to the fake site and eventually made the [...]

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