Jason Calacanis

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

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.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

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.'

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

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.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

I learned from my past.

Food is the new health care.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

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

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.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.