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
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
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.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
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.
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.