Rego 2.0, currently under development at Makalu, is going to represent a complete re-thinking of our popular locations app, and we couldn’t be more excited…
The path less traveled.
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The Vuelta Cerdanya Ultrafons (or VCUF) is an endurance event organized each year by Eduard Jornet, father of the world’s greatest endurance athlete, Kilian Jornet. From the rustic town of Puigcerdá—nestled along the Spain/France border near Andorra—four trail running races take place over the course of a long weekend: a 14km race, a 35km race, an 87km ultra-race and the ultrafons itself, at a mind-boggling 214km!
Our new app Rego has gone viral in Brazil for an “interesting” reason. Here’s the story.
My new investment book, [Money for Something](http://moneyforsomethingbook.com), has been out for about a month now. During that time, I’ve gotten some great feedback, and have made some interesting observations that I’d like share with you in this article.
It’s not every day that an opportunity presents itself to develop a product for an audience of 1.5 million people.
BEFORE NOW, THE CHOICES AVAILABLE to organizers of trail running events for the timing of their races were:
- Expensive — Contracting a professional chip-timing service, the cost of which can easily exceed 1,000€.
- Painful — Manually recording times, using a stopwatch and paper, or typing into an Excel spreadsheet on a laptop.
An exciting new option exists that costs a fraction of a professional service, is convenient and easy to use, yet provides high quality, reliable results.
This past weekend, the nearby town of San Pedro celebrated its annual “24 hours of sports” festival, during which a variety of sporting events are conducted over a one-day period. One of the events was a 2km race for the town locals. The Makalu team volunteered to provide timing service using our [RaceSplitter](http://racesplitter.com) product — an iPhone/iPad app used to time sporting events and races.
Yesterday we got a glimpse of the future of race timing, as the Makalu team traveled to Atarfe, Spain to conduct a live demonstration of our new product, RaceSplitter — an iPhone application for race timing.
AYER HEMOS TENIDO UN ANTICIPO DEL FUTURO DEL CRONOMETRAJE DE CARRERAS, al tiempo que el equipo de Makalu viajó a Atarfe, Granada, para llevar a cabo una demostración en vivo de nuestro nuevo producto, RaceSplitter – una aplicación de iPhone para el cronometraje de carreras.
For future reference, here are some photos of the Makalu Interactive office in beautiful Marbella, Spain. (These are samples from a photo set on Flickr, in case you want to see more.)
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