Jason Calacanis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
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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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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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Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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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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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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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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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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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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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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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 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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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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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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You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.