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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-10 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | StrategyMarketAnalysis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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