{"id":895,"date":"2009-12-31T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:50:54","slug":"quotable-calacanis-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/12\/31\/quotable-calacanis-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotable Calacanis 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Calacanis is an outspoken and unfiltered entrepreneur. Calacanis founded Mahalo<\/a>, co-founded Weblogs, Inc. which later sold to AOL, co-founded TechCrunch 50<\/a>, host of This Week in Startups<\/a>, founder of Open Angel Forum<\/a>. Calacanis is famous for his industry rants on Jason’s List<\/a> mailing list, most recently ranting about Facebook privacy mishap. Over the last year I have collected a few choice quotes from Jason Calacanis blog posts, mailing list, and podcast.<\/p>\n

\nIf you are not fired up with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.
\nThis Week in Startups #33<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf you built something based on the Twitter API, it is a hobby it is not a business.
\nThis Week in Startups #33<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAs Eric Schmidt, Stalin, Hitler, George Bush, and Kim Jong Il have all said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
\nThis Week in Startups #33<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI’ve seen slot of dumb guys with a lot of passion become vey successful. I see that guy every morning when I wake up and i shave.
\nThis Week in Startups #32<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf poor people pirate stuff it’s okay, because all you are doing is training them for when they do have money.
\nThis Week in Startups #31<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFacebook proved again this week that they are either the most unethical or clueless internet company in the world. An amazing accomplishment since Facebook is also one of the most promising, and certainly fastest growing, internet companies of all time.
\nIs Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIt is so depressing when one of our leading companies bases their ethics on “will we get caught?” and perhaps more precisely: “if we do get caught will it cost us anything in relation to the money we’ll make when we go public?”
\nIs Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThey should have a term limit for [television] series, seven years. If you can’t tell a story in seven years, that is it. Seven years and you can have two spin offs.
\nThis Week in Startups #28<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nA guy with an idea means nothing unless you have a lot of money, connections, or domain expertise.
\nThis Week in Startups #28<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYou have to pick hour partner like you pick your spouse, you really have to enjoy spending a lot of time with them.
\nThis Week in Startups #26<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWait a second, … you’ll waiting for me to take a risk, and then you’ll take a risk, that is not risk at all.
\nThis Week in Startups #25<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI think people overestimate the value of their ideas. They actually think their idea is what you are going to invest in.
\nThis Week in Startups #25<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAnybody that is a great entrepreneur has a little supper villain in them. There is a little Lex Luther in every CEO.
\nThis Week in Startups #25<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf there is any doubt, there is no doubt.
\nThis Week in Startups #18<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYou are your people.
\nThis Week in Startups #18<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nStarting is easy, finishing is hard.
\nThis Week in Startups #18<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFailure is the precursor to success.
\nThis Week in Startups #18<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nGreat entrepreneur gets a dollar out of a nickel, a donkey entrepreneur get a nickel out of a dollar.
\nThis Week in Startups #18<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe opposite of entrepreneurship is academia.
\nThis Week in Startups #12<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFailure is the common denominator amongst successful people.
\nThis Week in Startups #10<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nLongevity is a big part of credibility.
\nDon’t Stop Believing<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nPeople\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
\nDon’t Stop Believing<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sell your product, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a product\u00e2\u20ac\u201cit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hobby.
\nDon’t Stop Believing<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Calacanis is an outspoken and unfiltered entrepreneur. Calacanis founded Mahalo, co-founded Weblogs, Inc. which later sold to AOL, co-founded TechCrunch 50, host of This Week in Startups, founder of Open Angel Forum. Calacanis is famous for his industry rants on Jason’s List mailing list, most recently ranting about Facebook privacy mishap. Over the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[98,76,97,81,96,35,80,79],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-er","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}