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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Growth Hooked Model | ![]() Product Strategy KPI Tree | ![]() Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | KPI Tree, Owner List | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthBehaviorRetention | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |



