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Title: Two Groomsmen Needed

Message: We’re short 2. Please help us. This coming sunday. Free food and open bar. It’s a plus if you’re jewish but its not a necessity.

(Ed’s Note: We may have to reply to this &#151 since our Sunday isn’t busy. Thanks Paco.)

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We have confirmed that Element 79 has lost their business with Quaker Foods and Snacks. PJ Finopoli, Quaker’s VP of communications informed us of the decision late last night.

In what was referred to as a “difficult decision”, Finopoli informed us that, “Quaker has gone in a new direction with its advertising…(it was decided) that the brands could benefit from new creative direction…now is the time to consider a switch.”

Our spy tells us Quaker accounted for 15 percent of the agency’s business. Quaker had been on the shop’s client list for a “long time”. Remember when we reported E79 had laid off some 30 (well, 35 in total) employees in June? As SuperSpy put it, “Once, They Were Kings“.

Furthermore, we’re told that Chris Miller, recently appointed chief digital officer, isn’t long for the E79 world. Whether by his choice or not, he may not be working there much longer. More on that to come.

More: Element79… Um, Again?

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Noam Wasserman of Harvard Business School looks at some of the fundamental realities of owning your own shop.

Are you one of the many executives who’d love to leave the corporate battleship to skipper a speedy, nimble start-up? And are you using a variety of rationales for why it’s not yet time to go? Reasons such as: I need to work on my résumé, acquire more credibility, learn to manage better, figure out how financing really works, maintain stability at home while my children are young?

Those are legit reasons, of course, but while you’re waiting for everything to fall into place, you’re acquiring big-company habits that can hurt you if and when you ever make the move. Long tenures in corporate jobs keep you from becoming the self-reliant jack-of-all-trades that a new venture requires. You get used to having HR specialists take care of HR issues for you, finance aces prepare reports for you, and IT whizzes maintain the company infrastructure. You become accustomed to delegating and to distancing yourself from “real work” — a luxury that just isn’t possible in a start-up.

I know we have some community members here that jumped from a holding company’s air craft carrier of agencies to their own swift boat. Hopefully, we can hear from them in the comments.