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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Growth Golden Circle | ![]() Growth A/B Testing | ![]() 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. | In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | 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 | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30-60 min | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-8 | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning Draft | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | MarketingPositioningCommunication | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



