Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Looking for a first peek at the new tech talent? Don’t wait for a job fair. Get thee to a hackathon. These 24- to 36-hour marathon ...

Attending your first hackathon can be daunting. You overhear the team next to you talk about how they’ve won 10 hackathons, or another individual boast about how they’ve been coding since age 8. You ...

Looking for a first peek at the new tech talent? Don’t wait for a job fair. Get thee to a hackathon. These 24- to 36-hour marathon programming sessions are competitions for cash prizes and bragging ...

Hackathons have been popping up like crazy all across the country and the world in the last few years. But, what is a hackathon anyway? A hackathon is a sprint-like event where computer programmers, ...

The only rule of Facebook hackathons is you can’t work on work. Hackathons are Facebook’s overnight innovation sessions, usually held every six or eight weeks. In Facebook’s early days, hackathons ...

The key to organizing a hackathon is to start with “Why?” As Simon Sinek says in "Start with Why", great leaders inspire action because what motivates them is the meaning of a situation, not what to ...

Picture a hackathon. Likely you’re imagining images similar to those that come up when you search “hackathon” on Google Images: rows and rows of developers seated at tables in a hotel conference room, ...

AngelHack CEO Sabeen Ali has experience running hundreds of hackathons. She gave me these expert tips on how to be a great hackathon host The notion of bringing together a hundred or more developers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I founded Ziggeo and I write about the new wave of entrepreneurship. I’ve organized, participated in, and sponsored hackathons for ...

Mark Wood, Engineering Manager in the Mobile Team at Bloomberg London, recently returned from the 8th Annual NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World. Just like ...