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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 45-60 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | LeanStartupValidationMVP | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationDemandMVP |