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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() UX Design Design Studio | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 1-6 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |



