by Matt Moore | Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dan Lyons’ book ‘Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble’, is the true story of a journalist that goes to work at Hubspot as a ‘marketing fellow’ after losing his job at Newsweek. He’s one of hundreds of Hubspot employees, he’s twice the average age of the...
by Burch LaPrade | Jan 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Amplitude There really aren’t revolutionary ideas in product development, so much as riffs on timeless principles. There’s no “new” way of doing things that yields magical results. Best practices today are simply a repackaging of proven processes, often...
by Burch LaPrade | Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
A bad economy doesn’t impact all products equally. In economics, there are normal goods and inferior goods. Normal goods are the ones where there is a positive correlation between demand and the economic environment. Think of steak: consumers who are flush...
by Burch LaPrade | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
July marked Gain’s sixth anniversary. It’s always a fun, introspective exercise to chart our progress over the years. By way of how-we-got-to-now, here are the themes from prior anniversary posts. From the top: Year 1 seems like an eternity ago, but the theme was...
by Burch LaPrade | Jun 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Gain’s team recently returned from our first in-person conference in quite some time. The first week in June marked the first non-remote IASA Annual Conference in three years. The high-level recap was that it was, as always, phenomenal. Not only does the organization...
by Burch LaPrade | Mar 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Insurance Journal’s year-end list of top cyber attacks of 2021. Gain’s founding six years ago coincided with an increased focus on cybersecurity by our clientele. While many carriers operate in New York and are subject to 23 NYCRR Part 500, some are...
by Burch LaPrade | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am not a big reader of conventional business books with a how-to/advice approach. Instead, I prefer warts-and-all narratives which let the reader draw conclusions and apply them to their particular situation. (Recent reads for me were Disrupted and Super Pumped. Two...
by Burch LaPrade | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Like sands through the hourglass… or at least that what it feels like when waiting for your legacy Annual Statement software to force calculations across schedules. Modern software solutions offer a user experience so different from legacy applications that it...
by Burch LaPrade | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Fake it until you make it – not such a good idea in some markets. In the startup world, MVP is shorthand for “Minimal Viable Product.” This concept drives business strategy as the preferred way to get a software product to market. MVP is defined as the absolute...
by Burch LaPrade | Jul 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last month, Gain Compliance marked its fifth anniversary. Historically, this blog has memorialized this type of event with a short introspection of what each birthday signified: here’s last year, as well as our third and our first years. (Somehow, I skipped a blog...
