The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
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What You’ll Learn
- Ask Better Customer Questions
- Separate Evidence from Compliments
- Test Demand Before Building
Friendly encouragement can sound like demand even when nobody is ready to buy. Rob Fitzpatrick shows first-time founders how to ask better questions, explore customers' actual experiences, and learn without steering a conversation toward compliments. Read it before your first customer interviews to make those conversations more useful and uncover problems worth solving before you commit to building a solution.
- Author: Rob Fitzpatrick
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: September 10, 2013
- ISBN-13: 9781492180746
- ISBN-10: 1492180742
- Pages: 138
- Book weight: 0.37 lb