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| Criterion | ![]() Innovation Starbursting | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | StartupValidationCompetition |
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