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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making Red Teaming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 45-60 min | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | SensemakingDecisionRationale | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskDecisionSensemaking |