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Re:Ask HN: Book on organizing engineering team / process? on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:06PM (#17767121)
thanks a lot

Ask HN: Book on organizing engineering team / process?

I understand it's a strange question for HN, but please bear with me.We managed to get to profitability and VC funding with a very small team using somewhat free-form process. Everyone did everything, fires were put out all the time. Now we have resources to change that.Problem is that none of the founders worked in the tech company before (we come from research / academia).The product itself...

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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:31PM (#17524931)
I read Traction and Hacking Growth. Traction is a great book, HG is uninspiring - too repetitive and generally is about setting up growth hacking team in your company with emphasis on "developers are important they should contribute to the growth hacking"

Traction is a really interesting overview of all sorts of channels

What are the best, less well-known blockchain white papers?

I know Ethereum and Bitcoin are the prime examples of the white papers for blockchain. What are less known high quality white papers that you have come across?Asking because I often see mentions of blockchain / ICOs followed up by accusations of scam based on the quality of the white-paper, so really curious to see the ones that have better white papers. Thank you

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Ask HN: How to write such an agreement between founders?

We want to write an agreement that says that founders can't take their internal problems to board / investors before sorting things out themselves.Basically so that all inter-founder conflicts are resolved without taking it to people who have power to affect the company.Is there a template for such document?

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