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
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.
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.
Unfortunately, it is a documentary and not a drama.
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.
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.
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.
I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.