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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
Purposedifferent
The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-5 TageStunden bis wenige Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-8Nutzertraffic1-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk NotesInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NotePretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision
Tagsno overlap
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
ValidationDemandMVP
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
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Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics