Part of my series on what, why and how we do things at RunSignup, Founder’s Corner. Our company turned 14 years old in January. I was triggered to think more about this by a LinkedIn post by a friend, Jason Byrne, to think…
Read MorePart of my series on what, why and how we do things at RunSignup, Founder’s Corner. As I have said many times before, I am a huge fan of Warren Buffet and his long term thinking. This was reinforced the past several months…
Read MorePart of Bob’s continued ramblings. I got the new Apple Vision Pro to test if it might be an alternative for our developers as a next generation replacement for monitors. The concept is that you could potentially have a lot of windows open,…
Read MorePart of Bob’s continued ramblings. I was at the annual RunningUSA Conference last week and a number of customers said something along the lines of “I can’t believe how much new stuff you are coming out with!”. I thought it might be worthwhile…
Read MorePart of Bob’s continued ramblings. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of the Acquired podcast over the holidays. This started on our drive up to Maine listening to the VISA podcast, where I learned almost as much about the payments business as I…
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We had our annual employee benefits meeting the week before Thanksgiving. Andrew did this interview with me the day afterwards, and I thought it might be useful to share along with a written version below (so you can avoid my “Um’s” and…
Read MoreLast year I wrote about our Product Led Company Strategy and how we operate the company on a “Product Led Growth” strategy based on our Guiding Principles. We discussed our basic revenue stream based on payments. And we discussed our Employee Owned…
Read MorePart of Bob’s continued ramblings. This one is about how we are trying to keep a balance to our company and how this impacts year end decisions coming in 2023 and our plan for 2024. We are beginning our planning process for 2024…
Read MoreEventbrite had their Q2 2023 Earnings Call last week, and it appears they are doubling down on “take rate” as their key strategy, with a secondary strategy of lowering costs. That means more for them, and higher costs for customers. I have…
Read MoreExciting title, huh? But changing R&D taxability from a simple expense to a capital investment requiring a 5 year amortization will have a profound impact on all software companies if the current law stays in place. To put a headline on it – it will…
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