You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it’s not about grand innovation, it’s about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
Jason Calacanis
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.
Jason Calacanis
I’ve become addicted to playing poker because you’re constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Jason Calacanis
Google indexes the world’s information.
Jason Calacanis
The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
Jason Calacanis
You can’t be ever embarrassed about hustling.
Jason Calacanis
Risk-taking is my thing… I think of my company as my chip stack.
Jason Calacanis
The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don’t have the ability to do it themselves.
Jason Calacanis
The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don’t have the ability to do it themselves.
Jason Calacanis
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance – people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
Jason Calacanis
That’s one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don’t like – and if you think you have a better idea – you can pursue your model.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
My first company produced ‘Silicon Alley Reporter’ magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
Jason Calacanis
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
Things that look like an ‘overnight success’ typically are not.
Jason Calacanis
What I’ve learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
Jason Calacanis
For tech, I like the ‘DailySearchCast’, ‘TWiT’ and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they’re so bad and uninformed. It’s insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC’s, we all laugh at TechCrunch.
Jason Calacanis
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
Jason Calacanis
The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.
Jason Calacanis
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a ‘scam artist.’
Jason Calacanis
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.
Jason Calacanis
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don’t break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we’ve fought so hard to create.
Jason Calacanis
Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I’m able to accomplish this best via email.
Jason Calacanis
Journalists have misquoted people for so long – and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jason Calacanis
I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.
Jason Calacanis
If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it’s the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.
Jason Calacanis
People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can’t have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?
Jason Calacanis
Mahalo’s business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don’t see anything wrong with advertising-based search.
Jason Calacanis
I don’t need YouTube’s money. I have my own money.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
The companies that won’t do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
Jason Calacanis
What I’ve learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs – especially young ones – not be abused.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
Fire people who are not workaholics.
Jason Calacanis
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
Jason Calacanis
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
Jason Calacanis
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
Jason Calacanis
Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.
Jason Calacanis
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
Jason Calacanis
AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, ‘Can they innovate and scale their business?’ And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
Jason Calacanis
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
Jason Calacanis
I’ve gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of – certainly more than I deserve – and I’ve never had a public relations firm working for me.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
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.
Jason Calacanis
Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.
Jason Calacanis
Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it’s going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.
Jason Calacanis