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Ask HN: Preventing hijacking of a startup by a single founder
Hello HN,
I am involved with a startup where one of the potential founders is in litigation to regain control of a different project he started. He is afraid of repeating the same mistakes and is slowing us down considerably.

His experience boils down to the following. He was supposed to be the money guy and would be in the background completely. In this role he paid nearly all initial expenses for the first year including bringing in a knowledgeable manager to train founder #2 who would run operations afterwards. After a few years the company was very successful but founder #2 has refused to pay any dividends or salary to founder/investor #1. This is currently in litigation and founder #2 is using the company money to bankroll the defense.

Due to this experience founder #1 is trying to create an elaborate structure of control and is acting as an anchor on the new venture. I'm trying to find effective controls to remove the risk of 1 founder hijacking the company. Can this be done by how one sets up the articles of incorporation or corporate bylaws? Is there a better way? In general there is trust between the founders but this aspect is causing contention. How do you limit this risk?
Thanks in advance!

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EDIT: Corrected formatting issue.
As Tom Anderson also argued a while ago: it's not a facebook-competitor in its current form yet, but that doesn't matter.

What matters is that G+ is proving to be a nice blend between twitter and a blogging platform. When large content-creators switch to G+ (and a lot of them are, because of 1. followers, 2. larger posts, and 3. comments) their audience will slowly move over to G+ as well.

I will not be surprised if this will gradually result in more facebook-like activity (closer social contact, between friends) on G+.
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Diapers are a great example of balancing minimalism. Cloth diapers are cheaper in the long run and use less space, but they also take more time and energy to maintain than disposables.
> MySQL made it easier initially by omitting lots of difficult stuff (data integrity, management, transactions) thus making easier to get something working quickly.

Remind anyone of NoSQL? :)
Are small companies afraid to write like this?
CF穿越火线道具
The generator on this webpage is based on five samples from the Javascript PRNG (all from the same state, so effectively only 32 bits of entropy or so), plus the browser's window size and client viewport size, and mouse movements. Prior to sampling mouse movements, we're talking about around 64 bits of entropy here; probably less if your window is maximized (since there are a small number of popular window sizes). I wouldn't trust the grid that's shown on initial load, that's for sure.

Also note that it's frequently said that anyone can make a cryptosystem secure enough that the creator themselves cannot break it. So I wouldn't fully trust this without further analysis. I don't really like how much key material is exposed to the sites, though...

But that's not really the point. The real problem is that this is a _lot of work_. The real problem with passwords is not that generating them is hard. There's no end to systems to generate passwords. Here's an easy one: Print out a list of 6^4 common English words. Roll 4 dice to select one. Repeat four times. There's your password.

No, the real problem is compliance. Remembering passwords is hard, so people don't bother. Regenerating passwords each time with this "Off The Grid" system is also hard. So people won't bother. It is _far better_ to have a password management app than to halfheartedly use a system like this but eventually give up and go back to using the same password everywhere.
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I bought it when it came out.

You have to understand that the entire premise of the book is that n = 1. There's nothing scientific about it. It's not billed as such, and it is silly to expect it to be so. Sure, Ferriss dips into talking about the science of the body at times, and often tries to couch his forays in it, but the reason it is interesting/amusing is that he tries out some of these ridiculous ideas to see if they actually work.

It should be viewed as a jumping-off point, not an authoritative source.
Your post is unreadable. I'm quoting you here for the benefit of other readers:

> His experience boils down to the following. He was supposed to be the money guy and would be in the background completely. In this role he paid nearly all initial expenses for the first year including bringing in a knowledgeable manager to train founder #2 who would run operations afterwards. After a few years the company was very successful but founder #2 has refused to pay any dividends or salary to founder/investor #1. This is currently in litigation and founder #2 is using the company money to bankroll the defense.

> Due to this experience founder #1 is trying to create an elaborate structure of control and is acting as an anchor on the new venture. I'm trying to find effective controls to remove the risk of 1 founder hijacking the company. Can this be done by how one sets up the articles of incorporation or corporate bylaws? Is there a better way? In general there is trust between the founders but this aspect is causing contention. How do you limit this risk?
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This was a phenomenal read. I. Could. Not. Agree. More.
Physics grad student here. Commenter Symmetry is right; there is no inherent chirality in electromagnetism. If we're really not allowing anything that could be construed as a common observation, I think the only thing is to exploit parity violation in the weak force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_violation#Parity_violati...

Now, the weak force is pretty weak, so you usually have to do sensitive experiments to isolate it. But it's conceivable that there is macroscopic evidence of parity violation sitting around the cosmos which don't require common observation, e.g. maybe black holes have a slight statistical preference for clockwise vs. counter-clockwise jets. (Ultimately, such evidence would have to be traceable back to the weak force.) I'm not sure.
We did the tax credit work for Carl (thanks for the shoutout man!).

Between 2 CDN entities, only 1 can claim SRED. So if QC Inc did all of its work on behalf of another CDN company, usually the person paying claims the tax credits.

If a US company sub-contracts to you, there's no way the US Co. can claim SRED, so you can. You have to be CDN-controlled to get the biggest tax credit, i.e. the US Co cannot own more than 50% of you. What the CDN Co does with its IP is irrelevant. You can always choose to sell/license your IP to any other company for $1.

If you have any questions, just shoot me an email: rluk[at]flowventures.com

BTW is this Richard? If so, hey.
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"Is $41 million a lot of money" is a perspective-less question. Is it a lot of money for an individual? Tell me you don't think so. Is it a lot of money for an investment bank? Doubtlessly not.

Did the person you're responding to somehow say accounting was not important? How will the Wall Street Journal help me understand that further and why do you assume we need that insight based on all of this?
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I also replied to rreiner, see below. In a nutshell, you can as long as you're Canadian-controlled. Of course the work has to be eligible too...
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Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't get the point of this article. If the Church of Scientology owned a significant share of Time Warner, then there would be some irony. Or maybe I missed it and Anyonmous is an anti-capitalist organization?

Frankly, I think this is the right mask to use. It is consistent with the role the mask portrayed in the movie V for Vendetta. Further, this image is mostly free of the negative political implications of just about any other mask (e.g.: Imagine in Anyonmous used a Richard Nixon mask... they'd look like bank robbers or the topic of richard nixon would muddy the waters. Nobody is debating Guy Fawkes when they see people in the mask, because the mask is the supposed to be a mask and the original mask wearer was using it as a symbol of fawkes protest, not fawkes politics, etc.)
There is a lot less to learn (and, probably more relevant, it's much easier to learn) in the world of baseball statistics than there is in mathematics. Nobody knows more than a small fraction of the math that's out there, including people whose lives revolve around mathematics. It's just too much.
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I've had a gmail account for years yet I still have not received an invitation from google to join G+ ... so why should I care about its success or failure when I cannot even use it yet???
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There's a huge difference between tomorrow and yesterday! We can define yesterday as the stuff we can remember, and tomorrow as the stuff we can't. (Time asymmetry is huge.) But without common observation (or an appeal to parity violation in the weak force) there is no way to similarly define left and right.
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I'm learning that having an extra set of eyes on your code is invaluable.
One thing you need to mention:

The right accountant and the right family situation means that you don't pay taxes on the first N * $750k, where N is the number of family members you have.

It gets really complicated but essentially you can set up a family trust in Canada that owns a certain class of shares, or even a holding company that holds the shares and then when you sell the company every person in the family trust uses up their one time $750k credit. You can do this with friends you really trust as well, so it isn't always a case of Delware company. This is a brief introduction, that makes sweeping generalizations.

My very good friend is a CA that focuses on technology companies with PWC in Toronto. If you need introductions he is phenomenally good and gets it. He took 3 years of Comp Sci at Waterloo before getting bored of it and switched to accounting.
I don't see anything in the GITkit documentation where Google promises any kind of uptime number or notification window before disabling the service and leaving you with no way† for your users to authenticate to your service.

† You could try get them to do a password recovery procedure since you kept their email address, but I'd rather not send out an "I'm sorry, we lost your password." message to customers.
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at least for the games I'm interested in playing

is the essence of what you are saying. I thought it was silly to play on a tablet but then a friend showed me games like Fruit Ninja. And then we sat opposite eachother and played what I would call "modern boardgames" on it, silly arcade stuff, turn based strategy, etc. It was a revelation.
Hat tip to you, sir.
That would require a future in which all people, despite radically different political views, can agree to disagree in a civil manner. A world in which people will never fear retribution or discrimination from those who disagree with them. A world in which the very idea of threatening or coercing people to get them to vote as you wish is simply abhorrent. As much as I'd love to live in such a world, I cannot see it happening.
Lodsys is not “confused on the law.” Lodsys’s argument is confused on the law, Lodsys the entity is perfectly aware of the law and is attempting to “exploit” the law and the system.

It’s a clear case of “Gotcha, you neglected to get wording protecting your developers, so even though we all knew what you thought you were licensing, we’ll try to screw you just because it doesn’t cost us that much to try."
I still don't understand why the U.S. government should care. If they were being circulated as currency, it would make sense. But the metal in the coins is worth many many times their face value. It'd be ludicrous for a holder of a double eagle coin to spend it as $20.
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Marcus Aurelius is considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers, yet he was a Roman Emperor, probably the mightiest and richest man on earth at that time.
I don't think he got distracted much, but he was only streaming the second monitor (or computer).
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Well, I actually hear the argument about how Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic come up quite a bit in that context. It really is a V Mask not a Guy Fawkes mask in that regard.
I love cperciva's solution. OK, not solution, but at least paranoia. Back when I worked at a place called Morada in the early 90s, we had to port a C runtime library for the product to everything from 16 bit x86 "real mode" (DOS) to 64 bit DEC-Alpha, so word sizes were all over the map.

Trying to define portable size definitions in C can make you crazy (e.g. - such as trying to save a tokenized binary file from source code, such that the binary ports between platforms).

Kudos to the author for finding this bug.
This post was about as informative as a sneeze.
I recently grabbed a 512GB crucial m4 for $730 delivered, from here http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ (no affiliation) (price has risen slightly since). For some reason I'd been putting it off but seeing it there for less than $1.50 per gig, at the capacity I wanted for my macbook, suddenly seemed to be a no-brainer. Hell, I remember paying $100 per gig back in the '90s. Somehow my mental model of "reasonable prices to pay for storage" has just been totally biased by years and years of dirt cheap HDDs.

Frankly it hasn't been the jaw-dropping entering-hyperdrive performance boost I had kind of hoped for (I'm a rails dev). While a definite improvement, it seems that for many of my most common tasks (read: tests) I have merely pushed the bottleneck back onto the CPU. But while it hasn't sped up all that much, it never slows down, which you don't notice at first but over time has a subtle confidence-building effect. Application launch speeds are much improved, for those who spend a good part of their day launching apps, which is not me. I tend to launch a few and then use them for the next two weeks before I restart. I also like how the drive does not make whining sounds when I move the computer before it's gone to sleep.

Recommended, anyway, they're cheap enough now that it's not a luxury, even if like me you use most of it for your work music collection.
Also, if your Canadian company is US-controlled, it is not eligible for SR&ED and such credits.
Ask HN: Good Home NAS Solution?
I want to get rid of my bulky desktops, in favor of smaller machines, but this means finding another solution for housing hard drives. There seem to be a lot of choices out there (QNAP, Synology, etc). Any suggestions/warnings? My ideal solution:

- support RAID

- backup to the cloud automatically (preferably using my own credentials, and encrypted)

- not super expensive (whatever that means)
Not sure what your point is. If you actually think Google would force her to use her real name, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. If it is some point about the name wars, it has very little to do with Google+'s traction.
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You and I are using different definitions of the word "backed".
Microsoft was slowly moving onto consoles even before the Xbox. The Dreamcast ran Windows CE, and Microsoft approached SEGA at one point about building a Dreamcast 2, IIRC.
Funny, I personally always use the same apps everyday (Twitter, Reeder, Mail, Things, …) so I want the best possible user experience for those apps :)
I definitely agree with you. While there is a bright future ahead for mobile/web-based apps, they're not quite at the same level as native apps.

Also, that Dribbble app is great. Nice work.
This is an _amazing_ collection once you've gone past the beginner's stage:

http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html

For some great plugins, check http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
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Basically, all Double Eagles not in the government's possession are stolen property.
There's a bunch of us nomads here on HN, search for threads about location-independent businesses.
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The irony is that a multi-national corporation is profiting from the mask that many people associate with a protest group that attacks, among others, multi-national corporations.
Better to think of if as 'delete a' or 'delete in':

da" => 'delete a "-block'
di" => 'change in "-block'
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It's a cops and principle thing. It's "because I said so" authoritarianism of the highest order. Rationally, they shouldn't care at all, but available evidence strongly suggests that the business of drafting, passing, and enforcing laws has very little to do with rationality.
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FWIW I would pronounce it "delete all".
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He makes an important point about great products and puts it into a small blog post. Don't see, what's wrong about that.
Not every Anonymous mask. I've seen a do-it-yourself 3d paper cutout of the Fawkes/Vendetta mask you can print, cut out and glue together to get a royalty-free mask. Oh yeah, found it: http://forums.whyweprotest.net/threads/need-graphic-printabl...
Groupon is guaranteed marketing in the sense that people will purchase the Groupon offer. Is Groupon the best and most effective marketing tool...that will reach your target audience? No.
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These types of services are unnecessary.
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It's always about the guru - never about the content. Sure, the specifics change to adapt to current needs but fundamentally you'd be better off listening to what your mother told you. However, the guru is so much more interesting and, well, not your mother.

There's something about listening to someone else confirm what you already knew about yourself deep down. If it's put into eloquent terms you'll have a name to put to your yearnings and then, maybe, you'll end up doing something about it. More likely you'll read the book and then sell it back to the Book Bin when the next guru appears.
From some browsing on Google + , I feel that many aren't using circles the right way.
I am able to see random people's post planning for trek during the weekend. If it were FB, I might not have seen it. Maybe I would have been prompted to 'add as friend' .
I'm having a hard time understanding how the lawyers who negotiated Apple's license never raised/confronted this issue.
It would just be recognizing the jitter that exists inherently in the system. You will always get a different number when counting the votes, so you can end up with a "50% voted for both" situation.

Why is flipping a coin worse than pretending the next count will be more correct? You kind of contradict your own point by implying the supreme court didn't supply legitimacy to the election. Nobody can blame a quarter for being stiffed with neocons on the heads side.
Mathematics is the tool with which we pierce the veil that our minds place over reality. To compare it with memorizing baseball statistics is, is unjustifiable. I understand your sentiment but I must say I strongly disagree with you. The blog post was actually very accurate, not the fluff piece I was expecting.

Knowing of something is very different from properly understanding it to the extent of being able to contribute meaningfully with it. The difference between data and knowledge. The amount of information out there is growing exponentially. The amount that needs to be known before you can contribute keeps exploding with each generation. Such that the practitioner might know just as much if not more than their predecessors but the scope of their knowledge as a fraction of the full body is many orders of magnitude smaller.

It is not just a matter of will but of physics of time and the chemistry of the brain. Underutilized connections fade such that unless you spent time actively practising the wide skill sets to sufficient depth they will fade. But there is not enough time to be able to do that.

I do think that more must be done in enabling bridges as a counter to this. It is a shame category theorist must wrap their material in such obtuse language as it seems that it would be just the tool for the job.
really impressive and fast work! for me, however, I would like to see an implementation of Dalvik VM as a "card" similar to how they've managed to boot Ubuntu/LXDE as a "card". That way, we could retain the best of both worlds - webOS + android apps. This would be akin to the Alien Dalvik project on the Nokia stuff. Does anyone know what it would take to port Dalvik over? It must be possible, but this is outside of my area of knowledge.
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Thanks for all the comments on this. My next analysis will definitely include stability controls and their adoption rate.
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This is the top of the front page of HN, really??
Very little in this sort of thing surprises me, but this passed the threshold: "Lodsys next argues that it should be granted the right to conduct discovery on the Apple license in order to establish that the license doesn't grant whatever rights Apple claims." Apparently, Lodsys doesn't even know what license has been extended to Apple. Which is slightly less silly than I'm making it sound because it was the previous patent owner that did it, but still.... does seem a rather disadvantageous position to be trying to prosecute litigation from, almost to the point of bad faith if not actually over the line.
For me, only my closer friends are on G+. Unfortunately, this is the same group of people who don't post on FB, so similarly, my G+ is pretty quiet. It's nice though - really cuts out the "noise". In a way, I don't mind if it stays this way.
There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
If it shows anything, it is a horrible language design of C++. I wrote a C++ front-end long ago, and it is excruciating.

Later, when I had to write native code to speed up Python, I always used plain old C and swig worked flawlessly.
The black bloc tactics would seem to be far superior to the use of such `V' masks, due to the highly generic nature of black clothing, scarves, etc. Alas.
Nope - Walt Disney Animation has been doing open source for some time. They've been heavily involved in Python/PyCon for some time as well. They're really great people.
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$100m in value? With $12m in revenue (double from the previous year!), they are pretty close to being a $100m company NOW.
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