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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 hMultiple workshops over several weeks5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-81-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
GrowthBehaviorRetention
StartupValidationCompetition
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping