Jason Calacanis floats a solution to some perennial problems: How Bing might actually be able to gain some serious market share against Google How Murdoch might stop trashing Google for sending him boatloads of traffic for free Here's Jason: Not sure if you read Rupert Murdoch's comments today that Newscorp will probably block the Google search spider from indexing their news sites soon. Essentially...
Aren’t startups pay to present at DEMO? Or any similar conferences? What’s the fuss is all about? Startup Scam: Paying to Pitch Puts Power Players on the Warpath Over the weekend, the blogosphere has seen a small but profound eruption of wrath over angel investor groups that charge startups to pitch them. Jason Calacanis’ blog post on [...] Related posts: Yahoo shutting down GeoCities,...
On this week’s TWiT, Leo Laporte, Natali Del Conte, and Jason Calacanis get together to chat about the week’s biggest tech news. Among the topics? Natali’s new Droid, Jason thinks we’re due for a number of new tech IPOs (maybe another tech boom'), Patrick Norton crusades for a free internet, and more! This Week in [...]
Hosts: Leo Laporte , Natali Del Conte , and Jason Calacanis Natali Del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis says tech IPOs are just around the corner, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet. For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed Room . Transcript posted 24 hours after...
So here is the list, which is not ranked 1-100 but simply listed in alphabetical order. If there are others you think should be added to the list, make a note in the comments. Chris Anderson ( @chr1sa ) Editor in Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail Michael Arrington ( @techcrunch ) Founder of TechCrunch John Battelle ( @johnbattelle ) Author and pundit on Google and Internet search Veronica...
Startup-CEO-turned-VC Mark Suster is no stranger to our readers: his series on Entrepreneurship, Startups, the VC Business, and sometimes Twitter is a most popular read @ CloudAve. And Jason Calacanis needs no introduction, either.. he is well.. @Jason . :-) Today at 1pm PST they will talk on live video, courtesy of This Week in Startups. Watch the streaming video here: Live Streaming by Ustream.TV...
In the US there is a potential war brewing between angel investment networks and entrepreneurs. In one corner, you have Jason Calacanis, entrepreneur. In the other, a variety of angel investment networks. And in a Robin-Hood like manner, it’s stacking up the rich versus the poor. The whole issue is whether angel investors should be charging [...]
It's always awful when you try to demo something to a large audience and then it fails miserably. I found this video on Jason Calacanis' Mahalo.com site, a snippet of a Windows 7 demonstration on a segment of "Tokudane" on Fuji TV, a show roughly analogous...
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Tesla Motors , Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , USA Tesla Roadster - Click above image for high-res gallery We didn't believe it until we verified it with our own eyes, but amazingly it's true: Colorado is offering a $42,083 rebate on the 2009 Tesla Roadster until December 31st. Carry the one, move the decimal point... yep, that's a 38-percent discount on what...
After tech heavy hitters like Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Fred Wilson expressed public outrage over its pay-to-play fees, the Keiretsu Forum has begun waiving fees for early-stage startup presentations. According to PeHUB's Deborah Gage , the network is asking its chapters to disregard presentation charges for companies with less than $500,000 in capital and for those trying to raise less than...
The Keiretsu Forum is dropping their ‘pay to pitch’ model for early-stage startups. The angel group claims this change, announced today, is not in response to Jason Calacanis who threatened a shooting war if Keiretsu and other angel groups did not drop their fees by November 16th. I have been railing against angel groups who [...]
After making millions selling his company to AOL, you might think Jason Calacanis would be done making a public spectacle of himself. Not so. Just ask the security guards at Angel Stadium. The...
Keiretsu Forum, one of the angel groups that charge entrepreneurs for pitching investors, has decided to stop charging early-stage companies. Of course the decision has nothing to do with the storm of coast-to-coast criticism Jason Calacanis stirred up last week by declaring war on Keiretsu Forum, PrivateEquityForums, and other similar groups. Read the rest of this story » See Also: The Amazing...
Internet entrepreneur and business rockstar (CEO of Mahalo.com ) Jason Calacanis is probably sitting at the edge of his chair everyday counting down the days until he takes delivery of his Orange Tesla Roadster - Production model #16 in the Signature 100 collection!! Jason Calacanis Tesla Roadster Production Model #16