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?