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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60-90 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 | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | InnovationPrototypeResearch | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |
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