Quotes from Jason Calacanis

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.

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

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 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 balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

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.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

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.

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

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.

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?

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

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 think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

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

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.