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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | StrategyMarketAnalysis |
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