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 ...

For more than 12 years, I’ve been organizing and running hackathons with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities and fixing them before a product hits the market. These events can play a pivotal ...

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 ...

Throwing a hackathon is a great way for companies to get their name and products out to developers, but it shouldn’t be the only outlet to engage them. “Hackathons are not the be-all and end-all,” ...

Hackathons, as with much of the innovation movement, are being borrowed and translated to the development context. — Jay Corless, senior director of innovation at the U.N. Foundation “In my view a ...

Whether you are a tech savant gearing up for your next hackathon—or a coding newcomer wondering, ‘What even is a hackathon?’—this video is perfect for you. In short, a hackathon is a sort of 'codefest ...

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, ...

I’m currently in the process of planning a hackathon and have learned many tips. One that stands out is bringing in food trucks for lunch. This gives employees a chance to get some fresh air and take ...

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 ...

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 ...