Jason Calacanis Quotes

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Jason Calacanis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 28, 1970

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

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The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

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I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

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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.

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The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

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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.

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That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

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I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

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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.

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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.

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Fire people who are not workaholics.

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Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

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Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

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If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

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The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

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Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.

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I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

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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.

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