Mentors circulated around offering advice and tips over the weekend, which took place in shared workspace specialist WeWork’s east London offices. #Democratech encourages communities to engage with politics. Hackers, who were fed, watered and offered Yoga classes over the two day event in London, were given a brief to devise an “explosive solution” to world problems.ħ great finalists selected and ready to pitch!! hackathon #phldnhack #pano #startups #makeshithappen /yhigRUY5pJ Nicole from announcing the teams that have got through at the #producthunt #phldnhack #makeshithappen /9XccHdgJepįor example, the latest Product Hunt Hackathon, which kicked off last weekend, included prizes such as Raspberry Pi mini-computers to help the winners learn to code and mentorship from Google and design classes from design agency Rufus Leonard. "The aim is to encourage participants to make something meaningful – creating founders that will be change they wish to see in their communities." The winning prizes encourage the winning teams to pursue their ideas past prototype into flourished and established ideas. Now, innovation consultancy Adpreneurs is aiming to put a new spin on hackathons by flipping the focus away from an adrenalin-fuelled 48 hour war of ideas and instead using hackathons to nurture the entrepreneurial talent of the hacker over the long-term.Īdpreneurs, whose tagline is “make shit happen”, has teamed up with San Francisco-based website Product Hunt, which championed video streaming site Meerkat before it became a sensation, in launching this new incarnation of hackathon across the UK.ĭuring the event, media partnered by The Drum, Adpreneurs founder Nicole Bosky explained: “Our ultimate aim is to nudge wannabe founders into actual founders.
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