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Five Tips for Hackathon Participants

Original post by Michael Bleigh via Intridea This past weekend I participated in Hack the Midwest, a Kansas City hackathon. The event was a huge success drawing a crowd of around 100 developers. As one of the visiting developer evangelists said, it was a great turnout for a New York hackathon, much less one in the midwest. At […]

Developer Evangelism

Original post by Developer-Evangelism The developer evangelism handbook This handbook will get you on the way to be a great developer evangelist for any product or company. Of course your approach needs tweaking for different markets and audiences – and in accordance with your own personality – but the main principles are the same for […]

How to organize a hackathon: 6 key tips

Original post by Lyndsey Gilpin via TechRepublic Thinking about organizing a hackathon to power up new innovations? Read these tips to make sure you host a fun, impactful event.  Hackathons have taken the world by storm, happening all over the globe and across many different industries. The events, which typically last between a full day and […]

This 23-Year-Old Built and Sold His Startup While in School – Here’s How He Did It

Original post by First Round Review  From the moment Dan Shipper (on the left, above) stepped foot on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, he knew he wanted to learn how to build a real software business with paying customers and steady revenue. He passed with flying colors last month when he both graduated from school and sold his company Firefly (the […]