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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 45-90 min | 20–45 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 3-10 Kunden |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery |