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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min je Interview | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-10 Interviews | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | InnovationPrototypeResearch |