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14 top tips for hackathon success

By  Kirsty.Cooke  Taking part in a hack day? As we have recently emerged, triumphant but tired, from a pretty successful hacking event, the FusePump team are pleased to present this handy guide for hackathon victory… 1. Know your client The FusePump Hackathon was carried out in partnership with an existing client, Chain Reaction Cycles. (We used their data […]

The first step in planning a successful hackathon

By  Dave Fontenot  People come to me all the time expressing interest in throwing their own hackathon. It’s nearly always a great idea to throw a hackathon. The hard part is actually doing it right. The first and most important step in planning a successful hackathon: The Team, The Team, The Team You’ll need to […]

WHY EUROPE AND LONDON IS A FORCE IN THE WORLD OF FINTECH STARTUPS

By  startupxplore “At their core, financial products are based on information, so it only makes sense that big data should radically transform the way financial products are built and transacted”, says Jan Hammer, partner at Index Ventures, a firm that has invested in more than 10 fintech companies over the past few years. The transformation explained by Hammer has intensified […]

Hackathon success for WeatherSafe

By  innovateuk From hackathon to international business success in twelve months has been the journey of a lifetime for three people who met at a Catapult event. Francesco Liucci thought it ‘would be interesting’ to spend a couple of days exchanging ideas with software developers at a hackathon in December 2012. Just over a year […]

BIG TV WILL BE WATCHING YOU

By  Hubert Gertis  Somebody knows what you watched last summer. And wants to know what else you did while you were watching. And no, it’s not just the NSA. LG had to admit it: their Smart TVs were getting a bit too clever for their own good. LG collected the viewing habits of LG users and […]