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Started a company under an alias, now I need to switch back. What do I do?

I was moonlighting on the project and built a product to fill a void in my companies offering. I did all the work during the evening hours and on my own dime. However, I’ve left the company and now running my own business.  When I was employed with the company, I was using an alias. Now, I would like to start using my true identity.

How can I switch from the alias to the true identity?  I need a good story to tell people and put them in touch with the new and true identity. Also, what story should I use to kill the old identity. I worked with only a handful of people  using the old alias.

5 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Feb 24, 2015

If you don't make a big deal out of it I don't think anybody will care. Change the name on your website/business cards, etc. Keep using your old name with existing clients if you think that's the road of least resistance. If they ask you can always say "it's a long story" and leave it at that. You don't really owe your clients an explanation.

Just don't be weird about it and you should be fine.

AAnonymous· Feb 24, 2015

+1

AAnonymous· Feb 24, 2015

Why were you working under an alias to begin with? Was it to infiltrate them in an effort to steal their tech?

AAnonymous· Feb 24, 2015

No, wanted to have a salary to sustain. Besides, we had a lot of technical risks in the project.

We did not steal any IP.

AAnonymous· Feb 26, 2015

Easy. Message on the front page that the new you will be progressively taking more duties from the old fake you. Make the switch in 3 months time.