FollowI’m trying to blog more this year. But it’s hard. And it’s not even that I don’t have anything to write about–it’s that I just don’t feel qualified to write about those things. I have a mental checklist of things which I could write about. But I always stop myself before I begin. For instance, is anyone really going to take me seriously if I share my thoughts on why there aren’t more women in …
Monthly Archives: January 2012
What Matters and What Doesn’t at a Hackathon
I need to begin by saying that I’m no hackathon expert. I’ve partaken in three: one Startup Weekend, as an observer; and two PennApps’s, one very successfully. I think I’ve recognized some patterns among hackathons. If you’re trying to be successful, some things are just a lot more important than other things–and it’s not what I would have necessarily expected. Your team matters. This is the single most important factor in any hackathon. At Startup …
The Most Valuable Thing I Learned Between Two Internships
Over the past 8 months, I’ve had two different internships. The first was a summer internship at Valve Corporation, in Bellevue, WA–a short commute from my native Seattle. The second was a small startup called CloudMine, which just finished its stint in the DreamIt Philadelphia Class of 2011. At both, I was doing front-end web development, and at both I was the only development intern. At one, I was working mostly with PHP, the other …