Yahoo! Hack Pitch

The Yahoo! Hack/Pitch is an annual competition focusing on entrepreneurship and fostering innovation by combining students from the Tepper School of Business with those from CMU’s School of Computer Science. The first part of the competition is a part of Yahoo!'s HackU contest in which developers create a working prototype of a software application within 24 hours. The teams that are involved with the Hack/Pitch are guided by MBA students to create marketable software prototypes. In the second part of the competition, MBA students pitch the product and a business model to monetize the product to a panel of mock investors.

2010's Hack Pitch took place over the weekend of the 23rd-25th of September.

You can still download the PowerPoint deck containing all the information about the 2010 Hack/Pitch here.

"The Yahoo! Hack Pitch competition was a wonderful chance to participate in an intense and creative development project between the students of the school of Computer Science and Tepper at CMU. The generous panel of judges was composed of members of the faculty of CMU as well as management from Yahoo! and the competition was fierce. Between rounds competitors were pacing the halls and I did not feel like a stranger among them. I really enjoyed the opportunity and felt that the students worked marvelously together in what I saw was an amazing event all together." - Logan Powell, MBA 2011 (Winner, Hack/Pitch 2009)

For more details, developer tools and examples of past university hack visit: http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku