Here is a useful collection of advice from Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. Jason sold the pioneering blog network to AOL for $25 million) and is also the founder of Mahalo.com

[From the 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Success Manual. ]

On Mediocrity: Average people push great people out of a company.

On Gaining a Perspective in Life: Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger. - During an interview by Del Jones in USA Today (3/10/2009).

On Modern Journalism: I’ve been burned pretty regularly. I think anybody who’s quoted on a regular basis has either been misquoted, half-quoted, generally burned, and I think it has to do in a lot of ways with how journalism has turned into entertainment.

On Blogging: No Matter What: Create world-class content every day for a year. Folks get one to three months into blogging and they’re like “I don’t have an audience.” Uhhh…. well, it’s only been three months. If you’re going to make it in blogging today you have really be willing to invest a decent amount of time (or money).

+ I’ve developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my 28x a daily ego search over at Technorati.

+ The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust… you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it’s so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

On Market Crashes: When the market is in the middle of correcting, as I believe it is currently doing, people tend to underestimate everything including:
a) how bad it will be
b) how quickly it will get worse
c) how long it will take to recover

On being Credible: Longevity is a big part of credibility.

On Reputation: People’s reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

On Entrepreneurship: If you can’t sell your product, it’s not a product–it’s a hobby.

On Being an Expert: Jason Calacanis “Deliberate practice is what makes you good at stuff”.

On Luck: Life is really simple as far as I’m concerned. There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you’re successful.

On Sameness: Yes, I love Zombies, but no I don't want to be turned into one.

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