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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
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
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.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 hMultiple workshops over several weeks5-15 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-81-53-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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 stepFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
GrowthBehaviorRetention
StartupValidationCompetition
GrowthRetentionConversion
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