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Jason Calacanis

Jason McCabe Calacanis (born November 28, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company that he co-founded together with Brian Alvey, capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL. As well as being an angel investor in various technology startups, Calacanis also presents at industry conferences worldwide.

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If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Hobbies, Hobby, Ifs, Product, Products, Sell

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

Answer, Life, Staring, Stars, Telescope, Thinking

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Escape, Family, Mean, Trying, Velocity, Worry

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Average, Ends, Everybody, Voice

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

Easy, Finishing, Hard, Starting

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Remember, Remembers

I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.

Couple, Daily, Funny, Links, Manifest, Thoughtful

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Amazing, Being Real, Everywhere, Inspiring, Real

The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the idea, you don't have to know if the idea is going to win, you just need to know if a founder's going to win in their life. I can just tell by looking at somebody if they'll be successful in their life. I don't even have to have a conversation. I just look at their eyes while they're talking and it becomes very clear to me.

Angel, Book, Eye, Look, Tell

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Hard, Hard Work, Inspirational, Long, Successful, Things

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Built, Business, Down, Fortune, Market

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Adventure, Art, Ends

Average people push great people out of a company.

Average, Company, Great People, People, Push

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and
or the product

Email, Emails, Entrepreneur, Fundraising, Point, Question