Mark Cuban --

The "John McEnroe" Of Entrepenuers

By Markus Allen, Publisher of Marketing-Ideas.Org


M

ark Cuban is a name that you should "bookmark as your favorite." He's on my short list of blogs I love to read.

... And you can watch every move he makes at his online diary -- Yep, I like Mark Cuban's blog and think you will too.

Who is Mark Cuban? You might know him as the person unfairly linked as a competitor to The Apprentice -- unfair because Donald Trump only wished he had the talent of a Mark Cuban.

I first heard about Mark Cuban over a "marketing junkies" dinner I had with sports marketing expert (and author) Jon Spoelstra -- we talked about how Mark Cuban got involved with writing the foreword of his excellent book Marketing Outrageously. I've been watching Mark Cuban ever since.


Here's the short version of Mark Cuban's success

Cuban confounded Broadcast.com and sold it to Yahoo! for an obscene profit (nothing wrong with that).

But instead of cashing out and retiring on a warm beach, he's reinvested his riches... buying a professional sports team (Dallas Mavericks) and starting an all high-definition network launched on DIRECTV called HDNet.

Subscribers of my FREE marketing junkies' alert know I'm quite hard to impress, but Mark Cuban is the real deal. But keep in mind that if you're easily offended or politically correct, you're not going to dig Mark Cuban like I do.

You've been warned:>


Mark Cuban Bio

Mark Cuban was born on July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

At age 12, he sold garbage bags door-to-door. Apparently, this was just the beginning of big things to come.

Cuban decided to go to Indiana University because, "...It was the cheapest of America's Top 10 business schools." He put himself through school by giving disco dancing lessons.

Challenging himself to start up a business, Mark Cuban choose the computer industry (despite no having any computer skills). He started a company called MicroSolutions in 1983 (which was ultimately sold to CompuServe for a reported multiple millions of dollars).

But the big payoff came when Mark Cuban sold his next biggest idea (Broadcast.com) in 1999 to Yahoo! for a reported billion dollars.

Mark Cuban married Tiffany Stewart on September 21, 2002.