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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |