Mark Cuban, a Pittsburgh native, was born in 1958 and through his early years portrayed entrepreneurial-like traits. In college he would teach disco lessons to sorority girls for an expensive twenty-five dollars an hour! From the start, Mark Cuban was seeking opportunity and he was even able to save up fifteen thousand dollars by the time he graduated from Indiana University. With this money, he bought a pub. This was the beginning of his long and successful career.

Ultimately, Mark Cuban found success for his foresight and his ability to capitalize on the small windows of opportunity that he had. His first big hit was his internet consulting business, MicroSolutions. With this big hit he was able to sell it for six million!! From there his success flourished through his knowledge in Internet Technology and his ability to recognize that it was the future of the world. He became a pioneer for live internet streaming and this next company was bought out for a massive six BILLION by Yahoo.

Cuban has always been driven by his mindset to always be better and never be content or complacent. He always saw more and if he didn’t, he would quickly back out. Cuban was never afraid to take on a risk, however, he did his research prior to taking it. He is smart and tactical in how he deals with businesses. Cuban has taught me that you can make it if you do your due diligence. You don’t have to be a huge risk taker to be an entrepreneur. If you do your research and figure out where the market is leaning towards, you can jump on your profit. And  who knows, maybe it’ll reach ten digits.