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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Engineering Golden Path | ![]() Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization 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. | 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 many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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