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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Growth Golden Circle |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30-60 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-8 | 1-4 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning Draft | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | MarketingPositioningCommunication | ValidationDemandMVP |
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