Calacanis on the future of Weblogs Inc

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Following the sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL, Jason talks about the future for him and his bloggers. "We’re not a startup anymore, sure that’s true. We don’t have to worry about keeping the lights on any more. Now we can take a six month/three year view of the business—not a week to week view like most startups like us have to take." - Personally, i'd say a 3yr view was still way to far ahead, but i get the piont. It must be a nice feeling to have reached a goal like that.

- Y! MyWeb

Best of luck to him, but the

Best of luck to him, but the danger with partnerships is of your own interests having to be compromised with conflicting partner interests. It'll be interesting to see how this one pans out.

I liked this quote, though:

My GMAIL is filled with people asking us to “partner” with them over the past 48 hours. 90% of the time the translation of “partnership” is “give us all your traffic for free, give us your brand equity for free, and spend all your time working on building our business for free… and if you do that we’ll share the revenue with you if we make any.”