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 ...

Many well-known tech companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, are known to hold regular internal hackathon events. (Facebook’s “like” button and chat feature were both born from 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fashion brands, which have turned to hackathons to come up with new tech innovations, are now targeting their efforts to come up with solutions centred around sustainability. Companies including ...