Words matter. These are the best Niklas Zennstrom Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We’re getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.
They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we’re still just starting.
Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it’s not just one city block.
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.
In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
The Chinese market is very, very unique.
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.
I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.
If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.
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.
We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.
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.
Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I’ve seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.
We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.
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.
As an entrepreneur, if you’re the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
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.
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.
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
