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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Growth North Star Metric |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 5-15 min | 1-2 h | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 3-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | StartupValidationCompetition | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |