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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
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.
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.
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product
It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
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.
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.
Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
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.
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.
If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.
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've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.
When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'
The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.
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.
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.
All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.
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 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.
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
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.
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.