Knock on wood, but this is our 4th year in a row with 100% uptime. As we have covered in the past, we view the core of our company is building reliable transaction processing that allows races and nonprofits to collect money. This…
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We’re so thankful for all the race directors, timers, and nonprofits who used our technology this Thanksgiving for the biggest running day of the year. A simple Google search gives you pages and pages of Turkey Trots in cities and towns throughout…
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Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Internet, announced the Contract for the Web today. RunSignup has endorsed the contract and pledges to live up to the ideals of a better web. Much of the founding principles of RunSignup came from Open Source principles that are…
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Many nonprofits, their run/walk/ride partners, individual fundraisers and their donors are being surprised to see Crowdrise.com redirected to an entirely new website – https://charity.gofundme.com/. It is a bit confusing since GoFundMe made no real mention of the Crowdrise brand shut-down and redirect in their press release…
Read MoreBeing the open company we are, we do not express political points of view, and we respect a diverse set of beliefs among our employees, partners and customers. We also say “No” to events on RunSignup that are for the benefit of…
Read MoreDan Schaefer is joining RunSignup as our western territory sales rep helping race directors, timers and event organizers discover the benefits of using RunSignup. He comes to us with a background in technology sales, most recently with EnaSys RFID. Dan is an avid…
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Our industry consolidation continues. Asics has acquired Race Roster. This is good news for Race Roster’s investors. As we have been vocal about the limited valuations of race registration providers, they likely were paid a good profit. This is also good news for…
Read MoreOver the past three years (and before) we have made gradual advances toward being more accessible for differently-abled users, adding small code updates to better accommodate assistive technologies, putting some thought into contrast, and making sure our form fields have labels. These…
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We do a quarterly update on how things are going with RunSignup (2016, Q1/17, Q2/17, Q3/17, 2017, Q1/18, Q2/18, Q3/18, 2018, Q1/19 and Q2/19). The good news is that more races, timing companies, and nonprofits continue to recommend us. And we keep putting out great technology our customers seem to like! Q3 is…
Read MoreOver the past couple of weeks the RunSignup infrastructure has gone thru a large upgrade. The good news is that there has been no downtime! Also, the site speed has increased a bit as well and just squeaked under 2 seconds last…
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