Lessons from Cuban and Musk
0 0 reuben reuben2014-12-18 23:57:102014-12-18 23:57:10Lessons from Cuban and MuskAdvice for Microsoft
0 CommentsCalacanis talks about how Yammer founder David Sacks could be Microsoft’s Marissa Mayer:
Dark career moments
Calacanis talks with Lacy about how his career has been driven by his father’s failed efforts at entrepreneurship as a bar and restaurant owner and how he has felt the need to prove something to his parents:
I think I was also proving it to myself
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The meaning of being an entrepreneur
0 CommentsCalacanis talks about how tech companies should create real value for hackathons by offering genuine startup capital or, alternatively for established companies like Google, offering a stake in the companies themselves, to motivate founders. He also talks about why Larry Page keeps working despite having a net worth in the tens of billions, saying that he himself doesn’t need to work after ‘getting lucky’ with several projects, saying that people like Page and himself keep working because they want to build a legacy, or create something:
I love building teams, I love building products, I love building brands themselves…I love the act of creating a brand and doing something innovative
AccelerateOTT Fireside Chat
0 CommentsCalacanis and Social+Capital Partnerships founder Palihapitiya talk about Palihapitiya’s professional experiences, the lessons they have taught him and his views of the present startup environment.
When things aren’t working…when you’re forced to [work around difficulties] then you’re actually forced to try to be good at something
NextShark interview
Calacanis talks about building Weblogs Inc., how a blog network isn’t as easily scaleable now as it was before, and the problems he sees with YouTube. He says for artists, YouTube is possibly the best way to spread their work except for Pinterest which may be better for fashion designers, and Twitter may be better for comedians, but starting a standalone business on YouTube is problematic:
[..] there are certain things that make it really untenable to production companies and make it really impossible for it to be anything more than the third of the mix; anything more than a marketing tool with a little bit of revenue.
Making Youtube sustainable
0 CommentsCalacanis proposes a new deal for content creators to make it more sustainable, and owning your own audience, based on his companies’ experience publishing on YouTube and getting paid for it, and turning down funding from YouTube.
We’re going to hear about some of the good things about YouTube…The awesomeness, YouTube at its absolute best, people starting from nowhere, creating huge movements getting huge audiences and then doing interesting things with them
Talks about Tumblr acquisition
0 CommentsCalacanis explains the numbers behind Yahoo’s acquisition:
It turns out, there’s a lot of money in the world. The money is bored. Money wants to be spent! Money is intended to be gambled. These are big numbers, but these are big companies.
Raises $10 million fund
Investors in the fund include Yammer co-founder David Sacks, and another limited partner who isn’t identified at the time of the announcement. Calacanis in an email describes the fund’s focus:
[..] exclusively on folks who come out of LAUNCH Festival, LAUNCH Hackathon, LAUNCH Education & Kids and LAUNCH Mobile (our four events).
It plans to invest $25,000 to $100,000 in five to 10 startups a year.
Wants to run Twitter, YouTube, and more
0 CommentsFor the Pando Daily CEO Supper Club, Calacanis talks to Sarah Lacy about the tech companies he wants to run:
Twitter I think is going to be more valuable than Facebook… I think [Facebook] is a very faddy trend.
He says the filling out the social graph offers no rewards, and is useless.
LaunchConference interview
Calacanis is interviewed at the start of the conference and talks about his new venture:
I only know about 30% of what I’m doing, but it will be somewhere in the news and information space
Dyn interview
Calacanis and Dyn CEO Hitchcock talk about the Launch Conference, and a contest Dyn is throwing to send a New England startup to the event.
Minorities in tech writing
Calacanis and Bouie, Dash, and others talk about whether minorities are underrepresented in tech reporting, and why, after Bouie wrote a blog post about the issue. Calacanis eventually responds with a blog post of his own.
@Jason @jbouie if tech media is based purely on performance, then you're saying minorities are underrepresented because they can't perform.
— anildash.com (@anildash) February 5, 2013
Talks about reinventing Mahalo.com
0 CommentsCalacanis talks about how his human-powered search engine had to change its focus, after Google introduced the Panda software that prevented content-building sites from becoming influential. The company had to close down, try to wait out the changes, or reinvent its business. He chose to shift the company from a search-powered company into a content-powered one, and build in a process to review the quality of the content before publishing, via internal debate:
Most teams fail not because of fighting, but because of a desire to keep the peace
Talks about Amazon’s dominance
0 CommentsCalacanis talks with O’Reilly Media about his thoughts on Amazon’s dominance of the online retailing space and the tactics Bezos and co. use at the company, and how he thinks this is a good thing:
Silicon Valley Uncovered video
0 CommentsCalacanis talks to TheNextWeb about why Silicon Valley companies need a launchpad in the form of an accelerator:
We’re bringing together critical mass
Starts Launch
0 CommentsCalacanis creates the startup editorial venture partly as a rival to TechCrunch and increase depth, knowledge and thoroughness in startup reporting. Initially it will be an email subscription service:
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. I want high-quality insider information, a celebration of entrepreneurship and taking risk. I want it serious and insightful rather than salacious and link-baity.
Startup Grind interview
0 CommentsCalacanis is interviewed at the startup event and talks about starting Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and his other ventures. His job summary online says he has gone from ‘nobody’ to media titan and back several times, with a question mark over the future:
Never take yourself too seriously
Sues Arrington
Calacanis sues Arrington, claiming that he contributed to creating TechCrunch 50, which he says was rebranded as TechCrunch Disrupt, but that he was never paid for the sale of the brand to AOL.
FOWA London interview
0 CommentsCalacanis talks at the Future Of Web Apps event about his experience with Silicon Alley Reporter, Netscape, Sequoia, and others, saying that he had many great experiences but also difficulties along the way:
That’s how I became a great CEO, thanks to all the hardships