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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Purposedifferent
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.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
1-61-61-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
StartupValidationCompetition
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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 of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test