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 MoreYou 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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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 MoreMy 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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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 MoreAlan 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 MoreWe 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…
Read MoreWe are rolling out a new RunSignUp logo this week. It is only a slight modification from the old logo. “Ron Synup”, the running figure that has come to life in many of our videos stays the same. The colors stay the…
Read MoreW e would like to welcome Natalie Young as our newest member of the RunSignup Team! Natalie will be a Technical Customer Advocate – helping our customers set up their races and getting input for future improvements to the RunSignup system. We…
Read MoreWe passed another milestone in August – we had over 100,000 people sign up for races (this not include imported entries like paper applications, or club memberships, or donations, or store items purchased). Since we only did 80,000 registrations in total in…
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