Spinning Gear
There is no truth to the rumor that spinning the gear will lock you into a 3 year contract However, the last part of the video about cookies is patented…
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Quarter Million March!
Wow! We hit over 250,000 people registering for races on RunSignup just in March! (This does not include imports or race result uploads.) Thanks to all of the race directors, timers, running clubs and running stores who use us – and more…
Read MoreContinuous Improvement
We have written about this before. At RunSignup this is both a cultural component as well as a technical foundation. Culturally, we seek to continuously improve. We try to develop good solutions for customers, but they are never perfect. We learn from…
Read MoreWelcome Kevin Harris
We are happy to welcome Kevin Harris to the RunSignUp team! Kevin joins us to head up our financial and operational areas. As we grow, we wanted to bring in someone with excellent skills and experience in larger growing organizations. He has been a…
Read MoreClean API’s and No Meetings
You often hear the recommendation of “Let’s have a meeting” and “Let’s communicate more”. At RunSignup we think meetings and communicating are a waste of time. Mark Nigro, the CTO at Bluestone Software and a very bright man, introduced me to the…
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Becoming a Payment Facilitator
NOTE: We are now a Payment Facilitator. Over the next month, we will be moving to the next level of sophistication in our credit card processing and become an official Payment Facilitator (sometimes called a Payment Service Provider). This will ensure we are meeting banking and…
Read More“Software is Eating the World”
My good friend Sacha Labourey wrote this blog today – CloudBees Raises $23.5 M because Software is Eating the World. He makes the point clear: “Software is not a tool that “helps” businesses anymore. Software has become *the* business. Everything companies do, from interacting with prospects,…
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2014 RunSignup Year in Review
Much like last year, RunSignup has had another great year. The goal of our company is to provide web services to the running and endurance community. We feel our value is our ability to focus on technology that can be easily adopted by…
Read MorePride and Motivation
Alan Jones and Roger Bradshaw, the founders of RunScore and The Race Director (the two leading scoring platforms that are used by timers at about 60-80% of races in the US), recently did a survey of their timers. They collected 62 responses from RunScore users and 109…
Read MoreRunSignup Real Time Map
We have added a real time map that shows the location of race pages that are being hit. The blue dots are page hits to a race page, or in the middle of registration. The yellow dots are people registering. The larger the yellow…
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