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The Chinese market is very, very unique.
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Unique
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Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.
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Entrepreneur
Today
Options
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If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
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Browsers
Skype
Use
Browser
Web
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If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.
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Entrepreneur
Want
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Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.
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Connections
Internet
Skype
Connection
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Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.
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Block
Cities
Just One
Talent
World
Anywhere
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Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
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Best Place
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valleys
Way
Tech
Valley
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In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.
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Simultaneous
Users
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They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.
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Online
Voice
Combine
File
Messaging
Sharing
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As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
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Entrepreneur
Faster
Needs
Originator
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The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
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Google
Next
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valleys
Somewhere
Facebook
Valley
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Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.
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Ebay
People
Today
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The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.
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Internet
Links
Openness
People
Link
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I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.
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Financial
Financial Investment
Investment
Best Hope Will
Date
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We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.
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Conferences
People
Skype
Conference
Feature
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We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.
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Users
Worldwide
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And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
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Movie
Industry
Movie Industry
Vcr
Watches
Same Thing
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Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
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Internet
People
Software
Internet People More
Downloaded
More And More
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If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
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Computers
Computer
Ends
Resources
Users
Efficiently
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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.
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Technology
Charging
Phone Calls
Phones
Years
Calls
Phone
Last Century
Telephone
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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.
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Challenges
Moving
Online
Proven
Pure
Video
Big Way
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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.
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Compare
Numbers
People
Skype
World
Number
Network
Telephone
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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.
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Business
Months
Projects
Successful
Years
Becomes
Before
Invested
Overnight
Seemingly
Tried
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What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
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Advantage
Broadband
Higher
Lines
Taking Advantage
Unlimited
Calls
Phone
Provide
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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.
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Bigger
International
Successful
Sweden
Inhabitants
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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.
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Broadband
Connections
People
Powerful
Billion
Calls
Carry
Network
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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.
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Big Business
Bigs
Needs
Real
App
Businesses
Investor
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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.
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Access
Advantage
Matter
Needs
People
Skype
Taking Advantage
Everywhere
Where Internet People
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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.
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Cost
Simple
Skype
Join
Network
Virtually
User
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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.
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Friends
Technology
Communicate
Needs
People
Savvy
Skype
Users
Family People Way
Cheapest
Easiest
Friends And Family
Tech
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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.
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Execution
Investing
Looks
Thinking
Copy
Tends
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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.
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Money
Google
Pay
Advert
Click
Search
Similar
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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.
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Jobs
Angry
Bird
Brilliant
Different
Done
Extending
Faster
Merchandise
Online
Platforms
Products
Skype
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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.
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Failure
Disappointed
Moving
Next
Next Time
Thinking
Time Experience Better
Fails
Project
Move On
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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.
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Connected
Country
Each Day
People
Skype
Users
Any Given Moment
Million People
Via
Worldwide
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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.
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Big Business
Fashionable
Google
Looks
Obvious
Reports
Skype
Trying
Analyst
Hard Part
Search
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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.
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Computers
Broadband
Connections
Multimedia
Phones
Powerful
Streaming
Traditional
Work Way More
Began
Communicating
Phone
Traditional Way
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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.
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Dream
Believe
Dedicated
Important
May
One Man
Share
Smart
Smart People
Surround
Surround Yourself
Build
More
Believe Yourself Surround Yourself
Show
Doing
Believe Surround Yourself Yourself
Experienced
Surround Yourself Believe Yourself
Something
Than
Your Dream
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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.
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Opportunity
Mobile
Phones
Smart
Compared
Phone
Happening
Huge Opportunity
Interact
Services
Shift
Web
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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.
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Half
Love Is
One Love
Billion
Business Model
Sustainable
Extremely
Loves
Innovate
No Business
Product
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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. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
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Communicate
Savvy
Skype
Users
Family People Way
Browser
Cheapest
Easiest
Friends And Family
Tech
Web
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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.
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Music
Agree
People
Radio
Radio Stations
Record Companies
Stations
Suing
Thinking
Good Music Free
Shop
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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.
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Bandwidth
Concerned
Kind
Netflix
Video
Youtube
Consume
Network
Provide
Services
Wished
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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.
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Big Mistake
Entrepreneur
Mistake
Moving
Nine
Profile
Years
Earlier
Move On
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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.
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Inspirational
Jobs
Vacation
Home
Morning
Entrepreneur
Forget
Fulfilling
Going Home
Lifestyle
Middle
Night
Wake Up
Job
Morning Home Night
First
Read
Defines
Emails
First Thing
Hugely
Last
Pm
Rewarding
Send
Vacations
Wake
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