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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Growth Experiment | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 Wochen | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tagsno overlap | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP |
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