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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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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Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
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I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
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I learned from my past.
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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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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 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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If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
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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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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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Google indexes the world's information.
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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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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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I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
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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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Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
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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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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.
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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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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.