Jason Calacanis Quotes
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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.
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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
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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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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.
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I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
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Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
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Google indexes the world's information.
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If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
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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.'
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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.
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Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
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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.
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I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
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If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.
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If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
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Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.
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I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.
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Food is the new health care.