Rene Turcios has attended over 200 hackathons and doesn’t know how to code

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PaulHoule · 2h ago

Personally I find the way to winning hackathons is gamesmanship. If you’ve had startup (too small to get in TechCrunch) experience you know how to make a demo on a short deadline, how to demo broken software and look like Steve Jobs, etc. It helps a lot to get the right team too.

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Rene Turcios has attended over 200 hackathons and doesn’t know how to code

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