Episode references:

- Bob's personal website - https://www.bobbickel.com/

- RunSignup platform - https://info.runsignup.com/- TicketSignup platform - https://www.ticketsignup.io/- GiveSignup platform - https://www.givesignup.org/

- 2023 RaceTrends report - https://info.runsignup.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/23-Race-Trends-ONLINE-compressed_3.pdf- Founder's corner blogposts - https://info.runsignup.com/2022/03/03/founders-corner-ramblings-on-what-why-and-how-we-do-things-at-runsignup/

Episode info:

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Episode Outline:

0:05 - Introduction

3:12 - RunSignup founding story

6:09 - Growing from a passion project to 40% market share in endurance event registration

8:54 - Getting first paying customer

10:12 - First founding team member

11:20 - Running Monday morning 9:30 meetings for last 14+ years - listening and executing to ideas submitted by customers

12:42 - Monday tasks and onboarding new developers in the team

14:04 - Product led growth - starting GiveSignup and TicketSignup

18:34 - Building a balanced portfolio for growth with RunSignup, GiveSignup and TicketSignup

21:22 - Building empowered teams who acts like an API to optimize for communication

26:55 - Transaction based revenue model vs subscription based revenue model for SaaS business

32:17 - Tilted seagull revenue model in endurance sports

33:13 - Where is the event management industry heading (influencer led events, middle age (40-60 yr olds runners , young athletes)

37:53 - Running trends - why there are more woman runners than men?

40:12 - Are virtual races here to stay?