Startup & VC Jargon · Vice President level

"Stickiness"

"Stickiness" is a product metric that measures how frequently users return to an app or service, indicating how well it holds their attention over time.

Say this instead: how often users return

How "Stickiness" shows up at work

A single word that does a lot of squinting at the data. Product managers love it because it sounds like a compliment, but it rarely comes with a denominator or a definition everyone agrees on.

Buzzword

We need to focus on improving stickiness before we scale.

Plain English

We need to focus on improving how often users return before we scale.

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