Interesting blog suggesting that the TV show Friends was the downfall of Western Civilization. His point is that Ross was the smart guy on the show and always got made fun of for being smart – much like the kids he coached in…
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We did the first Market Analysis last September, and hope to continue to do this every 6 months and continue to make it better (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We do this as part of our…
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Most people do not understand technology, which is fine. The problem is that many people translate that into not valuing technology or the complexity behind the many simple uses of the web and mobile apps they see every day. This winds up…
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I went to The Big Short movie last night. I consider myself an amateur economics student of that time period and have read all the books – The Big Short, Too Big To Fail, and the ones by Geitner, Bernanke and Paulson. I found the network effects of financial leverage…
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Unfortunately, one of the things we have had to get good at this year is catching fraudulent races that have been set up (in addition to fraudulent transactions and hacking attempts). Over the past two days, we have caught 2 fraudulent races…
Read MoreIn keeping with the traditions of Festivus, we have a few grievances to air: Runners…We have a problem with your procrastination (Race Day registration,anyone?!), your insistence on registering on your phones, wanting us to remember your credit card info, and your expectation that results be instant and easily…
Read MoreWe are really excited about our roadmap for 2016. We will have our 6th birthday in January, and have done a good job of getting the basics of registration right (see our 2015 Year in Review for some details). We are now at the…
Read MoreWe have had another amazing year. Customer adoption of our technology is confirming our strategy and hard work to focus specifically on the Endurance marketplace. We love this market because customers are great, and in spite of the plethora of vendors, there…
Read MoreI (Bob) have taken a bunch of vacation time and had minor surgery that required time off, so I’ve had time to do a lot of reading (Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (great play!) and Ben Bernanke’s Courage to Act and a bunch of web stuff)….
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Moorestown, NJ and Boulder, CO – PreRace dba GetEvent.com will be helping existing race registration customers migrate to the RunSignup platform. GetEvent is transitioning to a new business helping connect organizations buy and sell race events, and will be discontinuing their race registration system…
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