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Criterion
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Rapid Ideation
Paper illustration of an eight-panel idea sheet with varied sketches beside a timer set to eight minutes.
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.When a decision needs to be prepared quickly, the method generates many solution-close variants in a short time. It deliberately relies on pace to undercut self-censorship and perfectionism. This quickly produces a usable field for prioritization and further work.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
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
5-15 min30-60 min5-20 min8-15 min
Participantsdifferent
1-53-101-201-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListIdeenpool, Roh-Shortlist, ClusterSketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeationDivergenceSpeed
BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint
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