Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

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.

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

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it’s not just one city block.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

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.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

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.

As an entrepreneur, if you’re the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

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.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

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.

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