#om

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#angry #birds #brilliant #company #different

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

#big #big business #business #businesses #cool

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#could #efficiently #end #more #much

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

#defines #emails #entrepreneur #first #first thing

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

#click #companies #go #google #internet

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#build #business #business model #company #did

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

#big-time #changing #compared #different #environment

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#company #many #place #silicon #silicon valley

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#communicate #easiest #easy #enough #family

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

#cheapest #communicate #easiest #easy #enough