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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective |
|---|---|---|
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. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |
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