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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Growth North Star Metric |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Growth Flywheel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-2 h | 90-180 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 3-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GrowthRetentionConversion |