Why I’m suing Mike Arrington

I made the mistake of skimming over the post.

1. I can't speak for everyone out there, but I'm guessing that most of the people out there have no interest in this drama. This is high-school theatrics played out by so-called grown-ups. I skimmed it because I had made the mistake of reading Arrington's post about it; I guess I was assuming two wrongs make a right... ;)

2. Most of the post is about the launch of his "LAUNCH" conference. The title of the post ("why I'm suing Arrington") has nothing to do with the meat of the post, LAUNCH. It becomes clear quickly that the title was deliberately inflammatory to garner attention.

Word of advice to Jason and Mike: enough with the drama. If you want to do something interesting, please make it interesting in its own right and stop this name-calling and theatrics. This is HN, not TMZ.

Wow.

tl;dr, the reason why he's suing Arrington: Jason doesn't deny saying any of the crazy things about Arrington being a drug addict, feels actions were almost but not quite justified because he got cheated, and btw, you should check out his new conference.

"When I was starting out I couldn’t afford to attend any conferences, but everyone can afford $400 for two days."

Oh really?

And I'm supposed to care about this why? Tech Crunch vs Mahalo ... yep, can't feel a thing.

Jason, $400 may seem like not a lot of money, but the majority of us start ups aren't just well off college kids. Some of us have families and part time jobs and run our startups with every last cent we have as you can probably remember. This may not mean much to you but maybe your missing out on the startups that have fantastic ideas and great execution but can barely afford the servers they are running their work on let alone the $400 ticket price not to mention the cost of flying out to San Francisco. Instead of repeating tech crunch, create an American Idol for startups where you go city to city, looking at the work of a variety of startups like the ones here in San Diego and then the top 20 you then pay to fly out to SF for the big event. This way you can drop the entry price say to $50 or $100 for small sit down and the money you make from touring across the country you can put together and use it to pay for the top 20 guys. Just an idea because some of us have lives that we simply can't walk away from and pay a fortune from our perspectives to visit SF on our own dimes but would still love to present our work.

in the comments: "jasoncalacanis: I'm willing to discuss any issues, except for the details of the case--which I've been advised to not discuss."

I am mighty confused about the posts contents given this comment.

"Mike told me over dinner that he didn’t like to sign contracts, and didn’t do so with his Crunchpad partners or me, because it gave him an advantage since a) nothing was documented and b) he’s a lawyer."

I can't help but assume Mike will probably start considering detailed contracts.

I don't blame the guy for being a hustler. Jason knows how to work the game, so sue him - or is that already been done?

Just an observation. How often does Mike's collaboration with someone ends up in flames?

The most important part of this mess, is that the LAUNCH Conference on February 23rd and 24th will be the best place to LAUNCH your new product/startup AND get funded.

My plan is to reinvest all profits from the conference into the startups personally.... as well as get all of the startups meetings with the 200+ angels that make up the eight-city Open Angel Forum!

If you want to present you can ping me at jason@calacanis.com any time for advice or to setup a demo.