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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
A paper-based illustration representing Pirate Metrics (AARRR) with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
Pirate Metrics AARRR
Purposedifferent
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.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-81-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryAARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
GrowthMetricsExperiments
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
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