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Ask HN: Can founder release a product under a new company using employees?

It was recently discovered that a co-founder had taken around $10k of money from our company bank account two years ago for personal use, and had covered it up without telling any of the other founders. As of today, all co-founders but him have resigned from the company due to severe financial difficulties.<p>We have recently discovered that he has set up another company and is planning...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you written a book? If so, why? on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:41AM (#5620513)
A PhD can be viewed as a peer-reviewed, published book, so yes.
What concerns me most is how Facebook may use Parse as a way to consolidate their place in the mobile app space. Just as they've done in the past with their SDK, what if Facebook decides to block access to apps that compete with for example, their messenger, Instagram etc?

Also, who owns the data?

Re:Bringing people back from the dead on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @05:37AM (#5600602)
Maybe you were doing it wrong?
Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride on Sunday April 14, 2013 @08:44AM (#5546762)
To be fair, the comment was downvoted, which I accept, but if you disagree with something it's perfectly valid to voice that disagreement. If Karma is a measure of the validity of an opinion, HN becomes a meritocracy.
Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:33AM (#5546636)
Did anyone else find this article to be meandering waffle that has no bearing to anything else on HN? I fear the airplane toilet incident has inspired a host of chemists to start posting on hacker news, creating a subculture.

And yes, I'm totally expecting someone to point to the HN posting guidelines that state that anything that may be of interest to geeks is appropriate...

Re:Single page apps in depth on Saturday April 13, 2013 @12:00PM (#5543610)
1. Are there any popular apps that consist of a single page?

2. What is the most lucrative single page app out there?

Re:Ask HN: How can content based sites make money? on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:02PM (#5501580)
Is every website not content-based by definition?
Re:Ask HN: Mobile app with 2+ million downloads, what next? on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:16PM (#5487941)
Any advice on where to sell it and who would be interested in buying it?
Re:Ask HN: Mobile app with 2+ million downloads, what next? on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @12:58PM (#5487284)
The goal is to raise user engagement by providing a useful service.
Re:This Professor only has a PhD degree on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:29AM (#5484922)
Not quite the same, but a few years ago I met an HCI professor who had started his career as a male nurse and had worked his way up through the academic system.
Re:Helios on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:51PM (#5481990)
This is really great.

A massive limitation of Parse.com is with their Javascript SDK - you have to expose your app keys to the client and the SDK doesn't work at all on any version of IE unless you have SSL enabled.

Re:Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell, to keynote Distill on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:49PM (#5481974)
This is awesome, the Atari 2600 was my first ever 'computer' and I still can remember the thrill of finding and playing a new game (and of course blowing into the cartridge to get the game to load :) )

Its limited by todays standard, which makes me excited to think about the technologies we use today that will be obsolete in 20 years time.

Re:Instacart: We're Sorry on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:44PM (#5481952)
Kudos for the apology, unfortunately it took for this to go to the top of Hacker News before an apology arrived.
Re:Ask HN: How to use $10,000 for max 1 yr ROI? on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:42PM (#5481942)
It depends on the risk you want to take:

Super high-risk: go to freelancer.com / elance and pay a freelancer to build the next top-grossing app.

Low risk, low return: Open a savings account, although with interest rates lower than inflation, you'll probably lose money in real terms.

Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard finding a Freelancer? on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:11AM (#5479730)
It may be that your idea is not feasible - I commonly get requests for ideas that are just not worth investing time and effort in.

Cost is another factor - what is your budget, have you made that clear in your emails?

How are you locating these people?

12 people isn't that many, keep trying and hopefully this thread will get you the right person.

Re: on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @10:52AM (#5479597)
My first question is... why would you want to do this?

Ask HN: Mobile app with 2+ million downloads, what next?

I developed a throwaway iOS app in my spare time that has accumulated over 2 million free downloads.At the moment user engagement is low as it is a basic app that uses the built-in iOS SMS component, but I'd now like to take it to the next level.I'm based in the UK, what are the next steps?

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