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Criterion
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
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.When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible.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
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
5-15 min1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-54-101-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting