Quotes by Jason Calacanis - Page 3

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Computers
Devices
Majority
Millennials
Online
Turning
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The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Joining
Site
Social Media
First Phase
Hosting
Phase
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Conspiracy
Fallen
Concept
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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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Angel
Investors
Funds
Supporting
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CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Cnn
Covering
Thousand
Alone World People
Languages
Fill
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When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Mean
Trying
Worry
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If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Commit
Deeper
Intimate
Online
Blog
Relationship People More
Facebook
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Capitalism
Changing The World
Entrepreneurship
Awesome
Fan
Huge Fan
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Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Accomplish
Blogging
Discussion
Long
Meaningful
People
Best Great Long
All Day
Via
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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.'
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Exposed
Only Time
Time Day Live
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Truth Is
Twice
Search
Switch
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Brands
Collection
Scale
Aol
Innovate
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People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Application
Desktop
Framework
Light
No Reason
Rich
Rich People Always
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Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Available
Instant
Massage
Tutor
Click
Sitter
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Abundance
Bad Stuff
Frustration
Good And Bad
Pain
Sorting
Tyranny
Causing
Choice
Major
Physical
Physical World
Psychic
Web
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I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Funny
Couple
Thoughtful
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Life Your Effort
Entire Life
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I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Life Pain Your
Life Pain People
Every Single Thing
Services
Single Thing
Trend
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I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Application
Box
Feed
Networks
Facebook
Social Networks
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Injustice
Massive
Oasis
Openness
Fought
World People Media
Tech
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I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Commit
Housing
Mess
Suggesting
Unemployment
Standard
Six Days
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Crowds
Refined
Trusted
Talented
Editorial
Layer
Peaked
Web
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Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Cleaning
Uber
Arrange
Life Thinking Start
Dropped
Picked
Services
Via
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It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Investors
Employees
People Important Your
Large Number
Startup
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Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Patriotic
Spread
Afford
Supporting
Technology Companies
Virus
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The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Funny
Care
Thoughtful
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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.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Brian
Consumption
Cuban
Dave
Etc
Riot
Wilson
Fred
Hilton
Jeff
Tech
Veronica
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For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Venture
Venture Capital
Capital
Inventors
Large Number
Nurtured
Valley
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You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Clever
Illustration
Team
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You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Humble
Innovation
Vision
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You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Aspiration
Be Humble
Humble
Industry
Innovation
Internet
Little Bit
Steps
Vision
Week
Little
Very
Lot
Big
Get
Month
Bit
Take
Every
Day
Every Day
Execute
Gigantic
Grand
Small
Innovations
Making
Terms
Something
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The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the idea, you don't have to know if the idea is going to win, you just need to know if a founder's going to win in their life. I can just tell by looking at somebody if they'll be successful in their life. I don't even have to have a conversation. I just look at their eyes while they're talking and it becomes very clear to me.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Angel
Book
Eye
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Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.
Jason Calacanis / Entrepreneur
Life
Simple
Stars
Thinking
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