Five Ways to Turn a Hackathon Project into a Sustainable Startup

Written by @fiveways | Published on 2021-04-01T18:27:02.185Z

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David Smooke: If ugly is functional, ugly is beautiful. If a project covers your expenses, you buy time to grow it. Sacrifice to get in the right room. You can always be more humble. Go for it anyway. If you have a project that's not a startup, it's a good idea to start a startup. If it's ugly, you can make it beautiful. If a product is ugly, it can be ugly. It can be a good thing to say 'I'm sorry' when you're in trouble.

From David Smooke's recent Mozilla Hackathon talk, here are are five ways to pieces of advice to turn a hackathon project into a real startup!

1. If ugly is functional, ugly is beautiful.

2. If a project covers your expenses, you buy time to grow it.

3. Sacrifice to get in the right room.

4. You can always be more humble.

5. Go for it anyway.

Watch full video: 5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Making Things in College, by David Smooke at Mozilla's Love the Internet Hackathon

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