Jason Calacanis

Businessman

1970-11-28

Books by Jason Calacanis

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Quotes by 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.
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Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.
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YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
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I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
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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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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.
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The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.
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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.
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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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For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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