The Mom Test: Customer Conversations That Actually Matter
Stop collecting compliments and start gathering real insights. Learn why traditional customer feedback fails and discover the three rules that transform how you validate ideas through genuine conversations about behavior, not opinions.
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People are collecting compliments instead of insights, and they're mistaking politeness for validation. Instead of asking people to judge our idea, we need to understand their actual behavior.
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