Michael Arrington, who has fended off startup supplicants in all stages of desperation, tells Wired about one particularly aggressive delegation to come to his door. Literally, to the Techcrunch owner's door, in the case of three white-suited Dutch businessmen who looked like "dandies on their way to a garden party." The magazine's Fred Vogelstein writes: "One Tuesday morning in early May, Michael Arrington was sound asleep in his bedroom in Atherton, California, when three men burst in. Naturally, he was startled. His first reaction, he recalls, was to tell them to 'get the fuck out.'" Tip to startups desperate for a review on Techcrunch: if you're going to send over someone to wake up the irritable web maven, a bachelor, make them female, carrying wine and flowers.</img>


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