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. – Jason Calacanis
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
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. – Jason Calacanis
Let’s make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you. – Jason Calacanis
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make. – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
After Sept. 11, New York wasn’t the same, and that’s part of the reason why I left. – Jason Calacanis
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs. – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it. – Jason Calacanis
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
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. – Jason Calacanis
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. – Jason Calacanis
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
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can’t appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device. – Jason Calacanis
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
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site – a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking. – Jason Calacanis
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
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.’ – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk. – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
If the founder comes to work every day, and it’s a struggle, that permeates the whole organization. – Jason Calacanis
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. – Jason Calacanis
