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Jason Calacanis [1970-0] American

Rank: 102
Businessman, Entrepreneur

Jason McCabe Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company that he co-founded together with Brian Alvey, capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL.

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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.		101
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.		102
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?		103
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.		104
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.		105
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'		106
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.		107
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.		108
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.		109
I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.		110
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.		111
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.	Relationship	112
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.		113
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.		114
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.		115
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.		116
You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.		117
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.		118
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.		119
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.		120
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.		121
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.		122
I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.		123
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.		124
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.		125
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.		203
Fire people who are not workaholics.		204
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.		205
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.		206
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.		207
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.		208
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.		209
Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.		210
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.		211
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.		212
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.		213
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.		214
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.		215
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.		216
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.		217
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.		218
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.		219
In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.		220
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.		221
Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.		222
I learned from my past.		223
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.		224
Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.		225
After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.		226
Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.		301
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.		302
When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'		303
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.		304
My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.		305
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.		306
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.		307
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.		308
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.		309
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.		310
The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.		311
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.		312
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.		313
Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'		314
Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.		315
If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.		316
Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.		317
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.		318
There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.		319
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.		320
The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.		321
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.		322
I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.		323
Google indexes the world's information.		324
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.		325
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.	Computers	326
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.		401
I find podcasting an enticing space.		402
It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.		403
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.		404
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.		405
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.		406
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.		407
Food is the new health care.		408
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.		409
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.		410
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.		411
The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'		412
Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.		413
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.		414
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.		415
It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.		416
The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.		417
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.		418
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.		419
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.		420
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.		421
Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.		422
As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.		423
Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.		424
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.		425
All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.		426
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.		501
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.		502
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.		503
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.		504
I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.		505
I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.		506
In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.		507
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.		508
Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.		509
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.		510
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.		511
Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.		512

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