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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | InnovationPrototypeResearch |
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