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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 45-60 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RationaleKnowledgeDecision | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | SensemakingDecisionRationale |