This is my story of how I almost won $20k. By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders)This weekend I participated in the AT&T Mobile HTML5 Hackathon. I had very mixed feelings in the beginning about my participation for multiple reasons.The first reason in...
During the hackathon, we’re constantly evaluating whether “it’s worth it” on any given problem. By Anna Billstrom (iOS & Facebook App Developer, Self) The AT&T Hackfest was in Palo Alto. Sleepy, beautiful, affluent, diverse and yet economically not-diverse,...
Watch the video for Chiu-Ki’s developer story of starting up Monkey Write at a hackathon. By Chiu-Ki Chan (Founder & Developer, Monkey Write) AT&T recently interviewed me on how I built Monkey Write from a hackathon prototype to a full business. This got...
Hacking on StartupBus en route to SXSW Interactive 2012. By Esther Crawford (Co-Founder, glmps) I’m writing this from a bus that’s traveling from Las Vegas to Austin with 30 guys and 4 women who are working round-the-clock to launch companies on this...
By Chiu-Ki Chan (Founder & Developer, Monkey Write) Editor’s note: Congrats to Chiu-Ki Chan and Judy Tuan, the latter who led the winning team at 2011 Women 2.0 Startup Weekend. Vote for their latest hackathon-winning app “PlayPitch” here! I...
