"By the way, the combined cash flow of Spot Runner, LinkedIn and Facebook is less than that of one Costco store."

— Todd Dagres
General Partner, Spark Capital

[Source: WSJ, Dec. 27, 2006]

"The Internet safe harbor applies in this case...The site is responsible for removing unauthorized copies of copyrighted content, but copyright holders are responsible for notifying the sites."

"Even Google can't get it right. I'm hoping that the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen realize that they may be subtle geniuses insofar as ease-of-use is concerned. I want to see more from these two, no matter what happens to YouTube."

[Source: MarketWatch, August 10, 2006]

"Checking your watch is becoming as much a part of the moviegoing experience as popcorn and soda".

"The world does not need more blogs."

"The new prime time is during the day in the office."

"And then came MySpace, the world's largest collection of bad websites since Geocities was launched in the mid 1990s. And so, it passed into common knowledge - design is bad, undesign is good."

"That's what the Internet is all about, people in funny hats making things that people like."

"The same DNA that disrupted the telecom industry is well on its way to totally revolutionizing the way the TV, film, and broadcast industry is going to be."

"Industry data shows that the Web takes up between 20 and 25 percent of consumers' overall media time, but attracts about 8 percent of advertising dollars. While advertisers have been steadily moving to the Web in recent years, this research indicates the shift should be on a much faster pace."

"Six courts in five years...have struck down similar laws, ruling that they were unconstitutional. This has resulted in legal costs of nearly one million dollars to the taxpayers of the states in which these bills were passed, and countless wasted hours spent by government officials attempting to defend the laws."

"M&A as a method to acquire traffic has not historically worked…It's a bad business strategy, and it's not consistent with Google's values and business strategy culture..."

"I don't think the internet has ever been perfectly equal or neutral. There has always been some level of inequality."

"Cingular already makes more money from music than iTunes does."

"If you're a consumer, I think the real question has to be: O.K., well, I'm kind of saturated at this point. I watch it on TV. I watch it on broadband. Do I really need a third screen to watch more of the same stuff on a phone?' "

"If anybody says they've figured this out right now, they haven't."

"It's Mr. Potato Head plus Play-Doh plus an erector set."

"In no relevant respect do they [bloggers] appear to differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical who solicits or otherwise comes into possession of confidential internal information about a company."

"Net Neutrality would result in an increasingly unreliable Internet as more and more high-bandwidth applications contest for space on networks that nobody would have an incentive to expand."

"The thought of Congress legislating without understanding this issue scares me."