{"id":13841,"date":"2013-05-28T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:42:13","slug":"gig-hiring-hackstars-kaplan-edtech-accelerator-powered-by-techstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2013\/05\/28\/gig-hiring-hackstars-kaplan-edtech-accelerator-powered-by-techstars\/","title":{"rendered":"[GIG] Hiring HackStars &#8211; Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Powered by TechStars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re a brilliant developer, a great designer, a UX star, you can execute like mad, sling top-quality code with the best of them, or turn pixels into perfection, and you\u2019ve always wanted to go through an accelerator program like TechStars\u2026 but you just don\u2019t have a team or idea. Dilemma! Until now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Enter HackStars.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator companies need an extra technical hand to help them do more faster during the program. Hackstars are highly-skilled software developers and designers that would love to work with the companies and go through the accelerator program.\u00a0 Plus, you get paid for the program (just like the founders) and most HackStars ultimately land a job or co-founder status with one of the startups. What a great way to hack into the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator!<\/p>\n<p>Do you meet this profile?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019re a a code-slinging mac-daddy superstar guru at PHP, Java, .NET, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, JQuery, or design\/UI\/UX.<\/li>\n<li>You can design, cut and code efficiently and brilliantly<\/li>\n<li>You want to learn all about startups and funding from our mentors.<\/li>\n<li>You want to work side-by-side with some of the country\u2019s most promising new founders and young companies in the edtech space.<\/li>\n<li>You live in a NYC, or are willing to relocate for the program and are willing to dedicate 100% of your time during the program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll be compensated $6,000 if you\u2019re selected.\u00a0 It\u2019s a chance to get an amazing experience, broaden your network in ways you could never imagine, and get exposure to some of the greatest up and coming companies and teams in the country.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kaplan EdTech Accelerator:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, powerd by TechStars\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanedtechaccelerator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Program runs from\u00a0June 18, 2013 through September 11, 2013. The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator is held in Kaplan\u2019s New York office, a state-of-the-art facility located in a prime location in Manhattan\u2019s West Village neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re a brilliant developer, a great designer, a UX star, you can execute like mad, sling top-quality code with the best of them, or turn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}