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
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
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.
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.
People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
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.
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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.'
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.
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.'