Embarrassment for Lexington
Embarrassment for Lexington
by Richard Stump
Posted on 11/11/2008
Rick Segal, A VC with JLA ventures and the Blackberry Partners fund had the following post about the pitches he receives. Unfortunately, a poor soul here in Lexington gets singled out:
"1 email with: "Steve Jobs has done an amazing thing with these Blackberry devices and my application can continue the drive for total RIM dominance." Now, what's cool about this one was the Steve Jobs, Blackberry and RIM words were all in Bold and different font. This was from a fine fella in Lexington KY. Yeah, [DEL]."
I am sure this was just a mistake and the guy knew that jobs and apple is the pairing but I assure Mr. Segal that most of us do. Just a small black eye.
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Glad it was straightened out, we are quick to react due to the broad-brush our state gets painted with
Dear Lexington, I promise I'm not picking on Lexington. Really. Moon, the "Bold" thing, by the way, was a play on the device: Bold. The engineer who sent this to me build a template and got stuff mixed up. I thought it was funny since it happens to all of us. The person, after reading this blog, emailed me, explained the out of control cut and paste, etc. It's all good. >R<
Well, most bloggers can be forgiven for poor grammar in a post from time to time but the point was associating Steve Jobs with the blackberry and doing so when you are trying to pitch a VC for money
I agree 100%
If that's a direct cut and paste, then Mr. Segal should find even more amusement in the irony that bold is not a proper noun and he should not have capitalized it. He made the same mistake he finds so cool about the fine fella from Lexington.
Honestly if more Lexingtonians were posting thoughtful, savvy information into the RSS cloud, we'd be far better off. As it stands, any twitch by authority bloggers puts the area's reputation at risk.
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