Jason Calacanis Quotes
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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
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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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This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.
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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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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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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.
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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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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
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The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
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Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
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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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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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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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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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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 only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.
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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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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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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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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
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You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.
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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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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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I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.