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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Agile WSJF |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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