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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Product Strategy DIBB | ![]() Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-2 h | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



