How to increase the effectiveness of your product analysts 📊
Finding insights and answers to questions in data is a key skill in product analytics. And developing this skill is the area where analysts usually see their growth potential.
Talking from experience, I strongly recommend paying attention to another aspect of analytical work: communication skills. Key here is not only finding insights, but also turning them into projects and making sure they convert into real value for users.
Getting to this point requires building relationships with the team, participating in key discussions, gaining credibility, and learning to present information in an effective way.
This article provides a series of recommendations for product analysts. However, it will be equally useful for product managers and executives who want to maximize the impact of analysts working in their teams.
Time To Read: 6 Minutes
Published: November 2019
Link: How to increase the effectiveness of your product analysts 📊
Challenger search engine Neeva is no more, in its current guise at least, as the Mountain View, California-based company revealed that it’s winding down its consumer business.
Founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan wrote in a blog post yesterday that they had faced significant challenges attracting new users which, combined with the difficult economic environment that all companies currently face, means that it is no longer viable to continue on its current course.
“There is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search,” they wrote. “As a result, over the next few weeks, we will be shutting down neeva.com and our consumer search product, and shifting to a new area of focus.”
Founded in 2019 by former Googlers Ramaswamy and Raghunathan, Neeva launched an ad-free, subscription-only (i.e. paid) search engine in the U.S. two years ago, before adding a free tier to the mix six months later. In the months that followed, Neeva said it amassed more than 600,000 users, though the vast majority of those were on a free plan
Read More: Google challenger Neeva gives up on consumer search, goes all in on AI and the enterprise 🙅🏻♂️
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