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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  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. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 5-15 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-5 | 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 | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | LeanStartupValidationMVP | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationDemandMVP |