Amir Hirsch: Technology is not a prerequisite for business success, but marketing is.
Jeremy Grantham: American entrepreneurs all know they're going to win. Only 10 percent survive, but they all think they're going to win.
Mary Meeker and Liang Wu: 60% of the top 25 public US tech companies (by market capitalization) were founded by first- and second-generation Americans.
Scott Adams: The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Mary Meeker, Scott Devitt, and Liang Wu: Do humans want everything to be like a game?
Newton Gimmick: Ultimately the new pricing reveals the true goal of Yahoo's new Flickr. They don't want you to pay for anything.
Dave Winer: Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.
Clive Thompson: Facebook only makes five dollars a year off of each user.
Horace Dediu: In the last 12 months, the average iOS user contributed about $48 to the ecosystem via Apple's own properties. The Twitter user today generates about $1.36 of revenue per year or one thirty-fifth of what an iOS user generates through iTunes and iCloud alone.
Ben Evans: Facebook did not solve the unbundling problem by buying Instagram - even in photos. It bought just one of many mobile social products, and not even the biggest.
Sandvine: Netflix (31.6%) holds its ground as the leading downstream application in North America and together with YouTube (18.6%) accounts for over 50% of downstream traffic on fixed networks.
Brian Abelson: What is the meaning of this cargo cult of counter-analytics?
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