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Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
LowHigh
Timedifferent
5-15 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-53-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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