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Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
A paper-based illustration representing Pirate Metrics (AARRR) with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
Pirate Metrics AARRR
Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Purposedifferent
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.For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks.Porter Five Forces analyzes the forces that shape competitive pressure and profitability in a market. The view of market structure goes beyond individual competitors and reveals systemic pressure points.
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5-15 min1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-52-82-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepAARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlogFive Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options
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StartupValidationCompetition
GrowthMetricsExperiments
StrategyCompetitionMarket
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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