Archive for the ‘jason calacanis’ Category

Winer vs. Calacanis - Let’s Get Ready to RUMBLE!

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Yesterday at Gnomedex - Jason Calacanis gave a presentation that ended up unfortunately being a commercial for Mahalo. Jason's cause behind Mahalo is just in his fight against search spam and if he had stuck to that mission, that mantra with just a slight mention of how he's ...

OMG - FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I hope McClure and Scoble aren't going through withdrawal ;-)  Jason Calacanis is probably relieved. UPDATE: It wasn't just me as CNET reported here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "OMG - FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/07/30/omg-facebook-is-down-scoble-and-mcclure-might-go-into-convulsions/" });

valuations are for egos

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Jeremy Liew started quite a discussion in the tech vc blogosphere with his post Asymetric risk and the danger of too high a valuation which was endorsed by Josh Koppelman and bashed by my fellow silicon alley alum Jason Calacanis and indirectly criticized by (and what might have influenced Jeremy's post) Marc Andreesen. As someone who ...

man vs. machine - the definition of search 2.0

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Those who know me know one of the guiding prinicples in my business and product thinking is that automation is king.  I believe that smart automation will always beat out manual processes when automation can be applies.  The thesis has certainly lead to my involement in a series of startups ...

the value of twitter

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Jason Calacanis (someone who i met often back in my silicon alley days even if he wouldn't be able to remember me from a hole in the ground) posts about his desire for a twitter pro account.  Since the rise of twitter I've been researching a number of startup ideas ...