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By Steve Spalding December 14th, 2007
Under: Featured

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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