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
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.
There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.
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.
Fire people who are not workaholics.
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
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.
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.
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.
I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
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.
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
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.
I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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.
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 mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.
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.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
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 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.
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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.
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.
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.
Food is the new health care.
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.
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
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?
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.
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.
As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
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.
