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
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
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.
The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.
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.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.
Not to mention (bloggers) get to write about the topic they are most passionate about. So, for our folks, it is like they are making money off their hobby. Think a scuba diver or video-game player making $500 to $1,500 a month writing about scuba diving or video games.