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Criterion
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Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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Facilitation
Mind Mapping
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Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
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.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
5-15 min15-45 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-51-103-10 Kunden
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
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