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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Facilitation Mind Mapping | ![]() Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 15-45 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-10 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |
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