Jason Calacanis Quotes
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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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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
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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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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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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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Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
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The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.
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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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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'
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You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.
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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.