Quotes from Jason Calacanis

If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

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.'

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

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.

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

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

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

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.

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.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.