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Criterion
Paper illustration for Golden Circle
Growth
Golden Circle
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Purposedifferent
In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement.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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min5-15 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1-81-52-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning DraftVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
MarketingPositioningCommunication
StartupValidationCompetition
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of a Strategy Canvas with several value curves
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Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
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