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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tags1 shared | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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