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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | InnovationPrototypeResearch | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |
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