Jason Calacanis Quotes
-
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
-
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.
-
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
-
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.
-
Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.
-
Google indexes the world's information.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
-
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
-
Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
-
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.
-
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
-
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
-
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
-
I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
-
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
-
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
-
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
-
After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.