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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Operations Fault Tree Analysis | ![]() 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 a critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage. | 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 | 2-6 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Fault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control Actions | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RiskRoot causeSafety | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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