Jason Calacanis Quotes
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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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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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
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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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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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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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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
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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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I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
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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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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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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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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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Food is the new health care.
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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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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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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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Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
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Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
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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 think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
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Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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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.