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I hope this hackathon happens again next year. They were very generous with their grand prize, and anything you built you were able to keep. The one thing I'd
by eggbrain 13y ago
I hope this hackathon happens again next year. They were very generous with their grand prize, and anything you built you were able to keep.
The one thing I'd ask them to change is for the prizes to be a little better distributed this year. I'd hate to be those second place winners who perhaps _just barely_ lost to the first place winners but had a $950,000 dropoff.
Perhaps first place $500,000, second place $250,000, third place $100,000 etc.
- dimva 13y agoTheir prize structure reflects rewards in winner-take-all scenarios, such as the tech industry. How much money is the second-best CRM system making compared to Salesforce?
- atwebb 13y agoA whole lot? I mean, I don't have exact figures but knowing a few I hardly doubt the next competitor has 95% less profit than SalesForce. Tech isn't winner take all in most cases, it's a few take all, like say 4-5...
- colabi 13y agothe prize structure was simply so that one company could eventually say "1 million dollar hackathon". no other reason. it's more reasonable to even it. every other company does that in the tech hackathons.
- schmerdy 13y agoAlmost as much. Only difference is that SAP is actually making a decent profit, while Salesforce is loosing money... http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/04/26/2013-crm-market-share-update-40-of-crm-systems-sold-are-saas-based/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/04/26/2013-cr...
- ReligiousWacko 13y agoIs salesforce making money? Hint: you won't get right answer listening to Benioff pumping and dumping on CNBC.