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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-10 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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