Jason Calacanis

JUNE 21, 2023

Before I get to my essay today, let me share a preamble on a podcasting author's wonderful, horrible life (page down to skip and read "The Great AI Hiring Freeze"). I decided to start writing again this summer, as I haven't flexed the muscle in years and enjoy the replies I get back. Thanks for reading The Jason Calacanis Newsletter!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2019

As Ryan Harris, Super Bowl 50 champion, said to me in a conversation on my podcast Maximum Enthusiasm , “Megan, that Cartier watch isn’t impressive to people who don’t know it’s a Cartier watch.” Chasing business we don’t love and accepting clients we definitely hate causes our souls to corrode. Consumption is killing us.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

If so, Shane Sams is all about encouraging you to get 100 people to pay you $50 a month and earn a total of $60,000 a year. Shane shares the story of him and his wife in how they started monetizing their knowledge and how you can too. Many new business owners are struggling. Listen to our discussion on the Smart Hustle Podcast.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

After the article published on February 16, I had several more companies reach out about news of open roles at their companies. Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S., It’s not fun covering layoffs, and unfortunately we’ve had too many of those.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Starting a business during a recession might seem like the WORST possible idea. So not only is there less competition for new businesses right now, but some sectors can even thrive since others are trying to just save cash. P.S. Need help turning one of these business ideas into reality? Sign up at Monthly1k.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

A version of this article originally appeared on Violet’s LinkedIn blog. These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership. These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. In this article, I’m going to share tactics we’ve used at Demand Curve to grow our newsletter list to over 50,000 highly-qualified subscribers and maintain an open rate of over 50%. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2021

30 Smart Decisions to Scale Your Ecommerce Business In 2022 Strategies that helped us grow a company from $1 million to $68 million in only nine months Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash If you’re a new entrepreneur and/or an ecommerce business owner, then you know what it’s like when you hit that wall. We thought so.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 23, 2019

One way do that is through the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for university students who own and operate a business. We recently caught up with Benjamin to learn more about his entrepreneurial journey and how EO GSEA has shaped his business. Before it was cool, I was reselling sneakers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You can still take advantage of all the small business advice that was shared throughout the event. You can still listen to the whole thing, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments and pieces of small business advice. Brian Moran, Small Business Edge. He left WSJ in 2012 and started Brian Moran and Associates.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

No matter what you may have heard or read in the blogosphere, there is simply no platform in the world where you can post a profile and expect money to start flowing. No matter what you may have heard or read in the blogosphere, there is simply no platform in the world where you can post a profile and expect money to start flowing.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

7:00 – What was their unique insight when starting HubSpot? 27:45 – The internet disproportionately benefiting small businesses over big ones. 27:45 – The internet disproportionately benefiting small businesses over big ones. This is Craig Cannon, and you’re listening to YCombinator’s podcast.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

I need to stay organized, so creating a podcast workflow was literally a mental health move. A bit about the podcast team Bettermental is the third version of a podcast I began working on with my former client, now friend and business partner, Mike, in 2017. Here's how we did it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2019

Ruari was a recent guest on EO 360° , a podcast by Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Tell us about starting One Year No Beer. I was working as an oil broker in London, and alcohol was a familiar tool for doing business. article “ How an Alcohol Hiatus Galvanizes Business Success.” How has it evolved?

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. This is Craig Cannon and you’re listening to Y Combinator’s podcast. We worked together there and then at another gaming start-up. Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior. 41:30 – Cleaning data.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The 6 best URL shortener services Bitly for the best all-around URL shortener Rebrandly for an alternative to Bitly TinyURL for free, fast, and anonymous short URLs BL.INK for business owners URL Shortener by Zapier for automatically creating short links Short.io The good news is, there are still plenty of alternatives out there.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For most of us in business, 2020 was a year of personal and professional challenges. From big brands to mom and pop storefronts, personal resilience is at the heart of many great business stories. . A week before Christmas 2014, in one heartbreaking phone call after another, I let go of my team of freelancers. I was not fine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. But wait, there’s more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

When the acquisition agreement was first announced in January, both companies touted all the ways that combining forces would help their respective businesses grow. billion were also scrapped in January 2021 after running into a regulatory wall. billion after raising $425 million less than just three months later.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

I was recently on The Hustle's "My First Million" podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri. You know, looking at retail businesses or. I'm a fan of the show, so it was a lot of fun to be on as a guest. One quick apology before we jump in: I try not to be too braggy -- but I balance that with transparency and openness. Sam: Oh, we're live.

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