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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Half day | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model |