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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Starbursting |  Innovation Crazy 8s |
|---|---|---|---|
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 ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30-60 min | 8-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-10 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Sketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint |
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