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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Purposedifferent
When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends.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.The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage1-3 h1-5 Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Nutzertraffic2-10Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
StrategyMarketAnalysis
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
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