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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() Growth Growth Experiment | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-2 Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |
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