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Having Fun In My Maiden Hackathon-like Experience
By Invest Openly  •  November 3, 2017
On Monday and Tuesday, I've participated with an Hackathon-like event called IdeaSmash (organized by my company). The idea is to let the employees experience the start-up process (from ideation to pitching the idea to the judges, yes, it's a competition too) and along the way pick-up the design thinking skill.
It's an eye-opening experience and an action-packed one as well. It's chaotically fun! Within the 36 hours, we are literally created SOMETHING (at least the prototype) from NOTHING. There are 10 teams in total and we (from the Football Kakis team of four) managed to pleasantly surprise even ourselves to clinch the champion spot for this maiden event.
Personally, the experience and knowledge that we gained from this event outweigh the prize itself. Some of the key learning points are:
1. Idea generation is easy, the tough part is generating the idea that the potential customers/users care about ...
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By Invest Openly
My name is Richard Ng and I am a Malaysian turned Singaporean. This is a personal blog of mine detailing my venture in Share Investment Project. All the details in this blog are from my real venture (as it happens) and all amount quoted are in SGD (Singapore Dollars), unless otherwise stated.
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