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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.
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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.
Jason Calacanis
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I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
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The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.
Jason Calacanis -
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.
Jason Calacanis -
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.
Jason Calacanis -
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
Jason Calacanis -
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Jason Calacanis
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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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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
Jason Calacanis -
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.
Jason Calacanis -
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
Jason Calacanis -
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
Jason Calacanis -
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
Jason Calacanis
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These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
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As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.
Jason Calacanis -
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.
Jason Calacanis -
Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
Jason Calacanis -
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
Jason Calacanis -
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
Jason Calacanis
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Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
Jason Calacanis -
Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.
Jason Calacanis -
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
Jason Calacanis