Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanisis 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. As well as being an angel investor in various technology startups, Calacanis also keynotes industry conferences worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
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.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
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.
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.
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?
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.
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
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.
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.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.