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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP | StartupValidationCompetition |
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