Jason Calacanis Quotes

You have to put a market value on what you do.

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

Some companies are worth paying for up front.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.

I would never put a movie on YouTube unless the funding was right, or unless YouTube paid for it or something.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I'm not in business to make money.

I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.

We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.