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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-4 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tags1 shared | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationDemandMVP | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |
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