Entries tagged "Jason Calacanis"

Jason Calacanis: 'Yahoo committed seppuku'

Yahoo!, 'the once proud warrior of the internet space laid down its sword, knelt at the feet of Microsoft and gutted itself today,' blogs Jason Calacanis, the colorful CEO of human-powered search engine Mahalo.com.

Startup 2009: Calacanis, Karp on mistakes

Jason Calacanis, David Karp, David Pakman and Daniel Klaus share their worst mistakes as entrepreneurs in the 10th and final episode in The Deal's Behind the Money Startup 2009 online video series.

Tweet some dealmakers on Follow Friday

Here are some of our favorite dealmakers to add to your twitter stream.

Calacanis: Wales a 'poser,' not an entrepreneur

Jason Calacanis blasts Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for giving up on Wales' 'Google-killer' search business. Fight and fight and fight, Calacanis urges entrepreneurs in The Deal's Behind the Money video.

Jason Calacanis on stage at Startup 2009

'I watched my dad fail when the market crashed in 1987, and the same thing happened to me in 2001,' recalled Jason Calacanis at Startup 2009 where he was giving advice to entrepreneurs.

VCs give advice, not much $, at Internet Week

Internet Week New York features a couple of events on Wednesday with VCs doling out advice to startups. The Deal will be videotaping interviews at Startup 2009, where finalists compete for $25,000 from General Catalyst.

TheFunded Founder Institute opens Monday

Entrepreneurs will learn about company building from TheFunded.com's Adeo Ressi, Mahalo.com's Jason Calacanis, Meetup's Scott Heiferman and Zynga's Mark Pincus.

Calacanis on two years of 'total pain'

Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis offers more bleak advice to startups.

Video: ThisNext's Scott Morrow on social shopping

Shopping is a tough sell in this recession, but ThisNext's Scott Morrow bets you'll want to make it social.

Josh Harris lived in public in the '90s; we do now

"We're all canaries in the coal mines now, like Josh Harris was back in the '90s," writes serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis in his e-newsletter this week.Harris was a prescient Web pioneer with an Andy Warhol-like flare for publicity. In 1993, he founded Pseudo Programs Inc., developer of the Web casting site pseudo.com. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2000, but Harris is probably best known as the creator of a controversial Truman Show-esque online experiment. Now he is the subject of We Live in Public, a film directed by Ondi Timoner that won the Grand Jury Prize for a U.S. documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film...

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