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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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