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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
Purposedifferent
When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage5-15 min30–60 min per interview1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-51 participant per interview3-10 Kunden
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
StartupValidationCompetition
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
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