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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 20-35 min | 30-60 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tags1 shared | StartupValidationCompetition | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |



