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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  UX Research User Interviews |  UX Research Personas |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30–60 min per interview | 1-3 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1 participant per interview | Internes Team | 3-10 Kunden |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery |