More TechCrunch50 Flap With a Texas Twist
Back in April we wrote a piece titled Let the War For Startup Attention Begin. The fluff began when DEMO and the TechCrunch50 conferences, both aimed at launching startup companies, were scheduled on the same days. Jason Calacanis has been viewing the pitches from hundreds of companies who want to launch at the TechCrunch event, and yesterday published a great piece on the do’s and don’ts of demoing your software. Alex Muse over at the Texas Startup Blog was as impressed with this advice as we were, and reposted the entire text in a blog posting titled Jason’s demo advice for startups. A reader of Alex’s blog is claiming plagarism (of Jason, not Alex), and everyone from Jason Calacanis to Chris Shipley is posting comments.
Alex will have a record week of blog traffic!
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Can’t we just look at the blog post times and figure out who wrote it first.
Also, while the advise is valuable to startups, you can find the same advise at many places on the internet as well as in other conferences like TiE etc. So, whats the big deal anyways.
Ritu - the post that Jason wrote was not a post, but instead an email he sent to his mailing list. I cut and paste his email message on my blog in the form of a blog post. Mike did the same and I gave him a little love indicating I got the idea from him. Anyway, Deb, a sometime-commenter on my blog, suggested in such specific terms that Jason had plagiarized her work I felt that it was justifiable to let Jason know what she was saying. If she was right he needed to be called out and if she was lying she needed to be called out. I simply posted the email from Deb. Jason immediately denied her claim. Deb quit responding to email or phone messages - I can only assume she was lying. For what purpose is still a mystery. Even Chris suggests she is lying. Again, it makes no sense…