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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Engineering Golden Path |  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. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | 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 | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |
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