When Moshe Tamssot walked out of a Chicago hackathon in August 2010, he had a new business and a new business partner.
Most hackathon attendees go just to have fun, of course, and that's been enough to establish hackathons as a part of tech culture. While the likes of Google and Facebook have used them to promote their APIs and entire 'ecosystems,' smaller firms are also adopting hackathons -- and swear by the results.
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