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Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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Agile
WSJF
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Product Discovery
Pretotyping
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
5-15 min45-90 minStunden bis wenige Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-53-101-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsPretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision
Tagsno overlap
StartupValidationCompetition
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ValidationDemandMVP
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Innovation
Lean Startup
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Delivery
Cost of Delay
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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Product Strategy
Lean Canvas