Why Hackathon is important for me?
Hackathon — a portmanteau of “hack” and “marathon“, where “hack” is used in the sense of playful, exploratory programming. (Source Wikipedia)
Competition creates innovation and innovation creates you! Before I start with why hackathon is important for you, you should understand what is hackathon?
Innovation is born of curiosity and most business now a day is born with a strong engineering of innovation. Every company is seeking for innovation to increase their productivity and efficiency. Hackathon is the event where groups of talents sit together to change the world!
But how it’s good for me?
Meet the people: At the hackathon, you get to meet new people with different talents. You can form your super team by talking to others and if you see any talents that you need you can partner up and start building your super team. So you want to look for talents that you are missing. For example, if you are a business person you would want to look for a developer and designer.
Mentors and Judges: Once you have formed your team then you get to choose your mentors that can guide you to the right path. Choosing the right mentors is very important. So you would want to choose mentors that best fit with your idea. So if your idea is to create on demand service so you want to choose mentors that have the most experience in on-demand service. Once you have your product ready judges will give you golden advice that can rocket launch your idea.
Prizes and Supports: At the hackathon, you have limited resources, you have limited time and you need to create a product but to take that product to the real world you need money and support. Hackathon can provide you with seed money and wth supports that you will need to grow at an initial stage.
Recruitment: If you are planning to be an entrepreneur that hackathon is the best platform to show your talent and get hired by big companies.
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