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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 60-120 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthRetentionConversion | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |
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