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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-4 Wochen | 20-35 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-10 Kunden | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tags1 shared | StartupValidationCompetition | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |