Early years
Cuban's first foray in the business world was as a garbage bag salesman, when he sold garbage bags around his neighborhood in the south hills of Pittsburgh.

Cuban earned his way to college by giving disco dancing lessons and by writing chain letters. He chose Indiana University because of the school's low cost compared to the nation's other top business schools. Even in college, Cuban was seen as controversial by some: his advisor admonished him for taking advanced courses during his freshman year and he was dissuaded from getting his MBA after getting a bachelor's degree.


Business success
Shortly after college, in 1983, Cuban founded MicroSolutions, which became a major force in the computer industry. He sold the company in the 1990s to CompuServe for six million dollars.

Soon after selling MicroSolutions, Cuban moved to Dallas. While eagerly following his favorite college basketball team, Cuban had the idea of broadcasting live games and events through the internet, which led to the creation of Broadcast.com. In 1999, Cuban earned about $5.7 billion when Yahoo! bought the business.


Sports

With the Yahoo! transaction complete, Cuban decided to pursue his love of basketball, and bought the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million from a group led by H. Ross Perot, Jr.. The sale was finalized on February 14, 2000.
"Cuban has become one of the most controversial NBA team owners in history, piling up a total of more than $1 million in fines, mostly for controversial statements against the league and its referees.

Cuban is a dedicated Mavericks fan, known for flying his $41 million private airplane to attend away games, and his tendency for wearing Mavericks t-shirts and jerseys at games both at home and on the road. Because of this, magazines and newspapers have dubbed him "the fans' dream (come true)."



One of Mr.Cuban's residences


Media and entertainment

Cuban continues to work with former Broadcast.com partner Todd Wagner in another venture, 2929 Entertainment. The firm recently purchased Landmark Theatre Corporation, a chain of 185 art house movie theaters.

Through 2929 Entertainment, Cuban also purchased HDNet, the first high-definition satellite television network. Cuban once appeared on ESPN's talk TV show Around the Horn.

As of August, 9, 2005, Cuban had begun spearheading ventures in both the social software and distributed networking industries. Cuban runs icerocket.com, soon to be known as Blogscour.com, a search engine which scours the blogosphere for content. Cuban is also a partner in RedSwoosh--a company which uses peer-to-peer technology to deliver rich media, including video and software to a user's PC." [Via wikipedia.org]

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