Jason Calacanis

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

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 learned from my past.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

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

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

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

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

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.