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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |