Jason Calacanis Quotes
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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
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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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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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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'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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I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
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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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Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
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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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Google indexes the world's information.
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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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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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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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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 don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
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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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Food is the new health care.
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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.
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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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I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
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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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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
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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.