This is a MUST SEE. Beyond the Glory: Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban’s rise to wealth is detailed in this excellent behind the scenes video. Cuban had various jobs and businesses before hitting it big with Broadcast.com (which is what blossomed his immense wealth).
One of his first ventures was actually owning a college bar which went bankrupt after a lawsuit stemming from an infamous wet t-shirt contest. His rise to wealth is truly remarkable.
I read a very interesting article today in the February issue of Vanity Fair about Warren Buffett. The online version of the article, which is shorter, is located HERE. The article (like many others) details Buffett’s modest lifestyle despite being a mutli-billionaire. However most impressive is the articles discussion on who may helm the mega [...]
With all of the media surrounding Donald Trump’s brash persona, Obama bashing and possible Republican presidential nomination (if he actually announces he is officially running), I wanted to share this interview I watched recently which doesn’t ask Trump the standard ABC, GMA or CNN type questions. There is no question that Donald’s business skills are [...]
Below is a very interesting link to a recent New York Times article that lists all the new members of Congress who are small business owners. From pizza restaurants to air conditioning companies to bug control to aerospace, their various ventures are all over the place. It seems as though a trend is taking place [...]
The below video is a very informational, entertaining, and funny presentation from Seth Godin, the creator of Squidoo.com (one of the 500 most visited sites in the world) and author of Free Prize Inside (Forbes business book of the year in 2004). This is excellent information for anyone interested in marketing and advertising, or more [...]
Marcos Galperin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, later finding a job as a Futures and Options associate managing YPF’s currency and oil derivatives program (YPF is an integrated oil company in Buenos Aires). After YPF, he worked in the fixed income department of J.P. Morgan in New York. Marcos then attended Stanford [...]
I wanted to share a book I enjoyed recently called The Arrogance Cycle by Michael K Farr. It gives a detailed, comedic, and inside look at the emotions, entitlements, arrogance, and detached reality some investors have (both on Wall Street and Main Street). For anyone who enjoyed Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker you will enjoy The [...]
To anyone who hasn’t seen it already, Bloomberg TV has created some excellent webisodes entitled Game Changers, profiling various entrepreneurs (Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Henry Kravis, Jon Stewart, Jay Z and Sergei Brin & Larry Page). For example, most people know that Larry Ellison created Oracle and that this is how he amassed his great [...]
