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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke 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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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