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Criterion
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Rapid Ideation
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 architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.When a decision needs to be prepared quickly, the method generates many solution-close variants in a short time. It deliberately relies on pace to undercut self-censorship and perfectionism. This quickly produces a usable field for prioritization and further work.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
5-15 min60-90 min5-20 min
Participantsdifferent
1-54-121-20
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogIdeenpool, Roh-Shortlist, Cluster
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
BrainstormingIdeationDivergenceSpeed
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Brainstorming
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Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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Innovation
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