Highlights from The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

Cover of The Mom Test

Highlights from this book

  • It’s not anyone else’s responsibility to show us the truth. It’s our responsibility to find it. We do that by asking good questions.

  • Rule of thumb: Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless.

  • Long story short, that person is a complainer, not a customer. They’re stuck in the la-la-land of imagining they’re the sort of person who finds clever ways to solve the petty annoyances of their day.

  • You can tell it’s an important question when the answer to it could completely change (or disprove) your business. If you get an unexpected answer to a question and it doesn’t affect what you’re doing, it wasn’t a terribly important question.