Sam Sethi is an entrepreneur; He left TechCrunch UK; He founded a blogging network, Blognation; Many people under contract with him weren’t paid; He claims Mike Arrington destroyed his chances at VC; He recently threw in the towel.

Chances are, part of that is false — guess which.

I get a lot of emails, everything I’ve read supports that Mr. Sethi failed to live up to contractual obligations.

I doubt he did this through malice, just very bad planning.

Coda

In business, especially international business, bad forward planning is not an excuse.

I really would love to get a clearer picture of what happened from Sam’s perspective, but…

He still hasn’t answered the email that he requested that I send him.

It’s very unlikely that Mike Arrington destroyed Sam’s business.

Not that he doesn’t have the power, but I doubt very much that he would waste his time caring, especially…

If he wasn’t planning to make it a public spectacle.

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The lessons here?

Under promise and over-deliver; At the end of the day, all failures are personal; When problems arise within your organization, deal with them transparently; Don’t do things to engender bad blood in the blogosphere.

Because, well, we talk.

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