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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration for Behavior Over Time Graph.
Systems Thinking
Behavior Over Time Graph
Purposedifferent
When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min60-120 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-63-81-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogBehavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events
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StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
GrowthRetentionConversion
Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics
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Paper illustration of System Archetypes with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
System Archetypes
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Funnel Analysis workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
Funnel Analysis