charlieoliver.me
Invasion of the Hackathons – Charlie Oliver
http://charlieoliver.me/2013/03/invasion-of-the-hackathons
Invasion of the Hackathons. March 15, 2013. 8220;The first rule of hackathon is there are no rules. Kind of like ‘Fight Club,’ but with no blood.” — Facebook engineer Paul Tarjan. January 8, 6:30PM, RSVP HERE. Unlimited opportunities for corporations seeking business solutions and innovation, investors looking for the next great startup and entrepreneurs who are inspired to innovate, collaborate and make a difference in the world. So what exactly is a hackathon? The meat industry ( Meat Hackathon. Ironic...
thenextweb.com
This dev will make your app in 48-hours for $10,000
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/05/20/this-dev-will-make-your-app-in-48-hours-for-10000
This dev will make your app in 48-hours for $10,000. By Courtney Boyd Myers. John D. Britton. Was taking apart remote control cars until he got his first computer in the 2nd grade. The 25-year old made his first web page in the 6th grade when MP3s first came out; he simply signed up for Angelfire and started using HTML. Britton spent his first year of college at RPI. Studying nuclear engineering, then switched to computer science and began programming in PHP. All Killer, No Filler. A neat web app that pu...
observer.com
Steal This Start-Up! No Longer Content to Write Checks, VCs Are Giving Away Their Best Ideas | Observer
http://observer.com/2011/06/steal-this-start-up-no-longer-content-to-write-checks-vcs-are-giving-away-their-best-ideas
Sign Up for Newsletters. No Longer Content to Write Checks, VCs Are Giving Away Their Best Ideas. Bull; 06/30/11 8:53am. VCs try to catch entrepreneurs with their best start-up ideas as bait. (Photo: rfduck / Flickr). In start-up parlance, and you should most certainly not blog about how you are “working on something exciting.” That’s just begging to get Zucked. The current generation of venture capitalists, by contrast, don’t mind getting Zucked; increasingly, they’re asking for it. I wish this existed.
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