Last week, we had an insightful, honest conversation with Rachel Katz, the Director of Social Innovation at AngelHack, a woman-owned company that’s a pioneer of global “Hackathons.” We sat down together during Collision Conference to talk...
For one entrepreneur and parent, hackathons past the test. By Rakia Reynolds (Founder, Skai Blue Media) This post originally appeared on Business Collective. As an entrepreneur and parent, I am choosy about what activities I allow my children to engage in, which...
High pressure, high intensity with serious rewards. Parenting and hackathons have a surprising amount in common. By Liberty White (Executive Director, ATLWebFest @ Georgia Tech) This post originally appeared on Medium. This past weekend I had the audacious, impromptu,...
“Catching up” is irrelevant. Getting started, however, is hard. By Katie Siegel (Director, HackMIT) This post originally appeared on Medium. The summer before my freshman year of high school, I realized that I loved to swim. And so, much to the confusion of my...
Let’s go beyond talking and start doing… By Aigerim Shorman (Co-founder & CEO, Triptrotting) & Dave Fontenot (Founder, HackMatch) If an alien visited a hackathon today, it would assume that the only creatures populating planet Earth were men simply because it...
