<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, dick hardt]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, dick hardt]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/dickhardt http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/dickhardt <![CDATA[Failed CEO Dick Hardt Takes His Name Too Literally]]> Our old friend Dick Hardt, the Vancouver-based entrepreneur whose last startup flamed out and drew a lawsuit by investors, has resurfaced at Microsoft. And, according to photos he just posted, he has nothing to hide.

Absolutely nothing. According to Dick's posts on Twitter, he begged his new bride, Jennifer Hardt, to let him post "R-rated" pictures from the couple's recent Maui wedding. After holding out for a week, she finally relented, and he posted a link to the photos on Twitter. Since Dick felt so free in sharing them, we didn't see why we should hold them back from you:

Alas, they really are only R-rated. So there's no way to verify how accurate a name "Dick Hardt" really is.

Now that we've seen the Hardts in the altogether, the only remaining mystery he's left us: After his previous company, Sxip Identity, went under, how is it that Dick had enough money to throw a wedding in Maui and pay a photographer for arty nudie pics?

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<![CDATA[Sxip mauling investors in Vancouver's Silicon Forest]]> sxip_identity_ceo_founder_dick_hardt.jpgSxip Identity, a Vancouver-based startup that's built a tool for porting your Web identity across sites, may have hustled investors out of $370,000 by misrepresenting acquisition efforts by tech titans Google and Yahoo. Founder, CEO and president Dick Hardt (no joke) now says the company is insolvent, and has no plans to honor the convertible bridge notes which were to revert to cash or equity upon sale or additional investment in the company. Where did the money go?

Well, Sxip Identity apparently owes Sxip Networks, also founded by Hardt, $4.7 million — and owes Hardt $275,000. The angel investors have filed suit, alleging that Hardt never disclosed the existence of the other company, and that the arrangement puts Hardt in a position to recoup money from the company before other investors do. They're looking to recover their losses with damages.(Photo by Kris Krüg)

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