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Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
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Delivery
Communication Plan
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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
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LowHighLow
Timedifferent
5-15 min1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-54-102-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
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VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
InnovationPrototypeResearch
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Innovation
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Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation