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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() UX Design Design Studio | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 3-8 | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | StartupValidationCompetition |



