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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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…
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