Jason Calacanis
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.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Computers
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.
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.
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'
Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
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.
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.
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.
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.
The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.
I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
Google indexes the world's information.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
I find podcasting an enticing space.
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.
Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
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.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
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.
Food is the new health care.
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
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.
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.'
Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.
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.
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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.
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.
No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.
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.
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.
As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
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.
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.
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
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.
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.
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.