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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | LeanStartupValidationMVP | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |