At our core, we are a technology company. Yes, we are completely focused on endurance, but so are many races. Yes, we care about our customers, but so does every race. But races simply do not have the focus or expertise to…
Read MoreMoorestown, NJ – RunSignup, the leading Race Management Platform in the US, today announced a capital investment of $1 Million by Bob Bickel, the founder and owner of the company. The purpose of the investment is to assure sufficient capital in light…
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We did the first Market Analysis last September, and a second one in March. We will continue to do this every 6 months and try to make it better with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We…
Read MoreWe have done a number of blogs about our culture, such as Built for the Long Run and Technology Really Does Matter and the Three Leg Stool of Customers-Employees and Owners being equal partners in RunSignUp. In this blog, I (Bob) wanted to review the actual legal structure…
Read MoreWe held our annual Race Director and Timer Symposium last week. As usual, we shared an overview of RunSignup and talked about our roadmap ahead. The core message is that RunSignUp is providing an open platform that provides technology to help races thruout…
Read MoreThis year, the RunSignup Community is introducing an annual program to give back to charities who promote running or utilize running as a way to improve their communities. We collected nearly 100 nominations and ended up with eleven finalists. The RunSignup Customer Advisory Board voted…
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We are very happy to announce that Matt Morrisson will be joining our development team. He comes to us from Amazon where he spent the last 5 years working on various projects including the console that anyone who uses AWS logs into to…
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In Philadelphia, we’ll be hearing about… We’ll be teaching about… We’ll follow all of that with a Keynote by Jim Marino of the Blue Cross Broad Street Run and the Philadelphia Marathon, on the explosion of Broad Street from a 5,000 runner…
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I (Bob) was on vacation last week. I got time to read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. While it focused on people, I kept thinking of it in terms of the attributes of success as they related to RunSignUp. A key quote I liked was: “My…
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I always love when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos puts out his annual shareholder letter. 2015 Letter to Amazon Shareholders Amazon has been an incredible growth story, and while their treatment of employees has come under fire, they have some very interesting things to…
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