Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. - Eric Ries

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News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

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We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

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