There's smart, shrewd, duplicitous, deceptive, and finally downright dishonest.  I don't know the man personally, but it's my opinion that Mr. Calacanis's business practices moved into that final category some time ago.<p>It's actually really sad.  I wonder what's driven him to this level.  Greed? Ego? 3rd party investor pressure? Simply not wanting to ever have his name associated with a repeat failure?<p>Especially amongst the entrepreneur crowd which he espouses to represent, truthful "honest" failure itself is looked upon less harshly than shady "gamed success".<p>Though in retrospect totally full of late 90s Internet hype, I remember being inspired by his Charlie Rose interview back in the "Silcon Alley" days of NYC:<p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9192442030075924272#43m" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9192442030075924272#...</a><p>What happened to THAT Jason?