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
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.
I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product
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.
Longevity is a big part of credibility.
People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.
No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.
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.
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.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
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.
Unfortunately, it is a documentary and not a drama.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.