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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Porter Five Forces |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 5-15 min | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyCompetitionMarket | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | StartupValidationCompetition | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |