ƸOdiv Mark Cuban's ƸOdiv How to Win at the Sport of Business ƸOdiv If I Can Do It, You Can Do It ƸOdiv Copyright ƸOdiv Diversion Books A Division of Diversion Publishing Corp. 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1101 New York, New York 10011 www.DiversionBooks.com Copyright © 2011 by Mark Cuban All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For more information, email [email protected]. First Diversion Books edition November 2011. ISBN: 978-0-9839885-3-3 (ebook) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ƸOdiv Introduction ƸOdiv I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked to write a book. More times than I can recall. The reality is that I don’t want to write a book. Why not? Because I’m not done yet! I’m young. I’m fun. I’m marginally ugly and I have a great family. I’m just beginning to get good. It is too early to write a book. What I have written, however, are blog posts. Lots of them. Most of them are about starting businesses. Many are about the challenges entrepreneurs face. Some are about what is involved in running a business. Others are about life in general. So rather than write a book, I decided to aggregate, curate (see how I used current buzzwords right there?) and update some of my more popular and personal blog posts from the past seven years. As you go through this collection, don’t feel you have to read it like a book. Use it as a way to get fired up. A way to get motivated. Something you can go back to when you need it. Scan it and find the posts that you can relate to. Or read every single word of every post. Either way, I hope you will find a nugget or three that will help you to reach your goals and have more fun in your life. If there is an overriding theme, it is my wish for you to recognize that if I can become the luckiest person in the world, then with a little bit of work, and yes some luck, you can give me a run for my money for the title. I won’t relinquish it easily, but you can be certain I will love the competition! Love it or hate it, when you are done, email me to let me know what you think at [email protected]. I can’t promise I will respond to you, but your chances of a response will certainly improve if you tell me how brilliant you found all of this and, more importantly, how you convinced all of your friends and coworkers to buy copies as well. Hey, I never said I was subtle! ƸOdiv PART ONE: The Dream ƸOdiv