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You shouldn’t be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, ‘What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.’ Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don’t get disappointed (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don’t need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently. (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we’ll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular. (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It’s not trying to do the obvious - that’s the hard part (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
When we look at investing, we always think about ‘how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.’ E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it’s execution (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Video is moving online in a big way. It’s proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It’s really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there’s a huge opportunity (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that’s part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000 (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don’t pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
As an investor, what we’re not looking for is ‘oh this is a cool app,’ it’s ‘is this something that can become a big business?’ You need to find those that can become real businesses (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Today as an entrepreneur you have more options (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you’ve invested, all the projects you’ve tried before that didn’t work (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it’s not just one city block (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
As an entrepreneur, if you’re the originator, you need to be faster than ever (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff (Niklas Zennstrom Quotes)