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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Knowledge Modeling Concept Mapping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic | 1-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Concept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |