Quotes by Jason Calacanis

“Not to mention (bloggers) get to write about the topic they are most passionate about. So, for our folks, it is like they are making money off their hobby. Think a scuba diver or video-game player making $500 to $1,500 a month writing about scuba diving or video games.”

“Unfortunately, it is a documentary and not a drama.”

“Since the number has been stated as not out of line it sounds like someone is trying to play this down.”

“This is a speculative space and no one has made it work yet. So there is a lot of work to do. Frankly, Im not sure how many of these well do Were going to see how this one goes and grow from there.”

“Ive been complaining about how worthless the results from Technorati are for the past six months (at least)…Amazing how quickly the mighty have fallen. At a conference last year half the screen in the audience seemed to be on Technorati. Now, I do my canned technorati searches and I see nothing but items from a year ago and spam. Ugh.”

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

I find podcasting an enticing space.

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.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

Back in the 90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didnt provide massive value.

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.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what weve 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.

Things that look like an overnight success typically are not.