Jason Calacanis Quotes
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Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
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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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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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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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I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
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I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
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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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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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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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Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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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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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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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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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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Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
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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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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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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
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Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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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 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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Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
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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.