Jason Calacanis Business Quotations

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.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

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.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

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

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.