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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Smoke 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 only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
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 | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthRetentionConversion | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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