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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Growth Hooked Model |  Growth North Star Metric |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | LeanStartupValidationMVP |