So How Was The White House Jobs Summit?
It was "earnest," said David Jones of Chrysalis Ventures, who got himself invited to the DC meeting yesterday, and extremely well organized. It also appeared to be crash-proof -- not like the state dinner for the Indian prime minister last month that was crashed by the couple from Virginia who wanted to meet President Obama. Jones said he was asked for his driver's license at the gate to the White House and had no opportunity to try to talk his way in. Jones found Obama "extremely impressive and magnetic," projecting a sense of calm, competence and confidence, as he would expect a politician at that level to do. What will result from the summit, though, is hard to say. Education and cash for caulking -- rewarding people for having energy efficient homes -- were popular topics, and Jones expects to see more programs to boost jobs, such as offering tax credits to small businesses that hire people. But the concerns of the venture capital industry -- excessive regulation on companies that go public,
