When I think about Hackathons, I always think about GroupMe (reportedly acquired for north of $50M). It seems like an example of right place, right time, right

When I think about Hackathons, I always think about GroupMe (reportedly acquired for north of $50M). It seems like an example of right place, right time, right technology, right audience. Lightning striking. "We were at the first Disrupt Hackathon in New York. We had group SMS working on Twilio’s API. You could add people to the group using commands on SMS, or you can use an HTML5 webapp. The only problem was that you had to know numbers and type them in. I mean, it kind of sucked. But we added in an offers tab, and in the demo we were talking about the LOST series finale. In the top corner, when you clicked on the offers tab, it took you straight to an actual ad for half-price if you check out the LOST series finale event at Brooklyn Bowl. We basically demoed that we had a working group chat with a functional business model... We had the idea a couple days before, and after we decided to go in we found it was a massive springboard for acceleration and growth." http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/from-disrupt-ny-to-a-43-million-skype-acquisition-groupme-tells-all/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/from-disrupt-ny-to-a-43-mil...