Niklas Zennstrom quotes - page 2

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)
The Chinese market is very, very unique. View quote
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Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. View quote
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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. View quote
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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. View quote
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As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block. View quote
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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. View quote
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International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market. (Niklas Zennstrom)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Niklas Zennstrom

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Photo: Eirik Solheim, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Swedish Scientist
Born: February 16, 1966
Quotes count: 40