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Books like The Mom Test
The best books like The Mom Test are The Lean Startup, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, and Start with Why. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is about customer interviews, startup validation, product development. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
Shares product development and entrepreneurship with The Mom Test.
Read the summary → - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Start with Why
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Simon Sinek · Business
Start with Why is Simon Sinek's argument that the most influential leaders and organizations in history didn't succeed because they made better products or ran smarter campaigns.
A kindred business read.
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- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence is Robert Cialdini's account of why people say yes, and how that agreement is manufactured.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business
Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.
Shares product development and entrepreneurship with The Mom Test.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Anything You Want
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Derek Sivers · Business
Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' account of building, running, and eventually selling CD Baby, the independent musician distribution company he founded accidentally in 1998 when a few friends asked him to sell their CDs online.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Build
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Tony Fadell · Business
Tony Fadell was the engineer who built the iPod, the executive who led the team that created the original iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the thermostat company he sold to Google for $3.2 billion.
Both dig into product development.
Read the summary → - Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
John Warrillow · Business
Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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Books like The Mom Test: quick answers
What are the best books like The Mom Test?
The best books like The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad Feld and David Cohen, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Mom Test, such as customer interviews, startup validation, product development.
What should I read after The Mom Test?
A natural next read after The Mom Test is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Shares product development and entrepreneurship with The Mom Test. Other strong choices are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini.
What books are similar to The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick?
The Mom Test centers on customer interviews, startup validation, product development. Books with a similar feel include The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad Feld and David Cohen, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
