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
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
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.
The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.
I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.