Jason Calacanis Quotes
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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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People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
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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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I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
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The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.
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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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I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.
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Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
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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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The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
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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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YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
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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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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
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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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After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
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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.
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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.
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I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.