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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
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.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.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.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min45-90 min5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-62-81-5
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk NotesVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
StartupValidationCompetition
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