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
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
Unfortunately, it is a documentary and not a drama.
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.
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.
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
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.
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.
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?
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.