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I'm generally opposed to the co-opting of hackathons for startup prototyping. Startup Weekend and StartupBus and similar events have their place, but I wouldn't

• thelonelygod 12y ago
  Judging is one of the places that the focus of startup prototyping/learning gets confused. Some judges don't really care about the technical aspect of your project. Boilermake stands out as a great hackathon that had judges emphasize the business nature of our projects. I've had great experiences at events only to have them ruined by being asked how does my project make money. I dislike that question, especially when I spent a weekend doing something for the sake of making it instead working on a pretend pitch.