Words matter. These are the best Jason Calacanis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I learned from my past.
The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film ‘We Live in Public.’
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs – especially young ones – not be abused.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long – and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
The problem most people make with their media presence is they’re trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it’s not very sexy.
Food is the new health care.
CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news – let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S – and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn’t actually need better-quality search. I think we’ve got good enough search.
If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, ‘It’s a blog,’ everyone questions me.
I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
It’s very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a ‘Fast Company’ story – some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.
I find podcasting an enticing space.
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site – a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don’t break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we’ve fought so hard to create.
For tech, I like the ‘DailySearchCast’, ‘TWiT’ and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can’t have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?
My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
After Sept. 11, New York wasn’t the same, and that’s part of the reason why I left.
Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
Back in the ’90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn’t provide massive value.
The companies that won’t do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
What I’ve learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes… so, if you’re a phoney, you’re going to get your bell rung.
AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, ‘Can they innovate and scale their business?’ And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
As content creators, we’re benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn’t do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance – people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they’re so bad and uninformed. It’s insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC’s, we all laugh at TechCrunch.
I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn’t expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.
The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.
Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.
For a first-time entrepreneur, there’s nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there’s such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
I’ve become addicted to playing poker because you’re constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Selling out isn’t selling out anymore. It’s getting the brass ring.
I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
Let’s make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.
I’m suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
Everyone’s drunk on the term ‘blog.’
When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, ‘They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.’
Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I’m able to accomplish this best via email.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
I’m trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users’ time.
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
There’s nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.
I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
America might be a dying empire, but it’s not going to die in our lifetime – and it doesn’t have to die at all.
If you’ve got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
I don’t need YouTube’s money. I have my own money.
This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you’ll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying – and you’ve fallen for it.
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.
I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.
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