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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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 | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 5-15 min | 30-60 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StartupValidationCompetition | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |