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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Growth North Star Metric |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 1-2 h | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | LeanStartupValidationMVP | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | StartupValidationCompetition |