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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Growth Hooked Model |  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 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 |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | 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 | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |
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