Vanity Metrics Are The Numbers You Want

What If We Found Ourselves Building Something That Nobody Wanted? In That Case What Did It Matter If We Did It On Time And On Budget?

If We Do Not Know Who The Customer Is, We Do Not Know What Quality Is.

Here In Silicon Valley, I Have Taken Part In Hundreds Of Conversations Trying To Convince People To Dive In And Become Entrepreneurs. All Too Often, Innovators With Good, Safe, Jobs Are Unwilling To Put Their Family's Access To Health Care At Risk By Walking Away From Company-backed Medical Insurance.

We Need To Reengineer Companies To Focus On Figuring Out Who The Customer Is, What's The Market And What Kind Of Product You Should Build.

You Know How People Always Talk About How Vision Is The Key To Entrepreneurship And Perseverance And Really Seeing What Other People Don't See? We Can Actually Redeem A Fair Amount Of That Folk Wisdom.