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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | 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. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 5-15 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StartupValidationCompetition | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |