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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
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.
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.