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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Innovation Brainwriting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 15-45 min | 45-90 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-10 | 2-8 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas |