Jason Calacanis Quotes

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

With success always comes mimicry.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

It's a copycat league.

The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it.